Two Nova Scotia families are sharing their firsthand experiences with the novel coronavirus. While both families have members who have tested positive for the virus, their experiences have been very different.
Shawn Selfridge, along with his wife and children, tested positive for the novel coronavirus earlier this month. The Halifax family had travelled to the United States, where they were staying in a family-owned cabin.
They were briefly visited by two American family members. When Canadian travel restrictions began tightening, Selfridge says the family decided to journey back to home soil.
En route, Selfridge says he began experiencing mild flu symptoms but didn’t have a fever. Shortly after arriving back in Canada, they learned one of