Category Archives: Covid-19
Border to stay closed
The border between Canada and the United States will stay closed for at least another 30 days. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau extended the border measures earlier Friday. Non-essential travel between t...
Nov 20, 2020
Lions Club faces fundraising challenges amid COVID-19
A local Lions Club official says they cannot donate the way they did before COVID-19. Canso Lions Club Publicity Chair Ray White says their chief goal is fundraising, and that's become incredibly chal...
Nov 18, 2020
COVID-19 vaccine 95 per cent effective: Pfizer
Pfizer says a final analysis of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows it is 95 per cent effective. The company said Wednesday it counted 170 cases of the virus among its roughly 43,000 study participan...
Nov 18, 2020
StFX VP says she doesn't expect repeat of sanctions
Officials at StFX have released a list of disciplinary actions related to COVID-19 during the fall semester. Elizabeth Yeo, the university's vice-president students, says they informally resolved 145 ...
Nov 18, 2020
Mayor says she's confident in StFX winter term plan
The mayor of the Town of Antigonish says there is concern with StFX's upcoming winter term. Laurie Boucher says they've gone through the process of students returning to the community before, and it w...
Nov 17, 2020 StFX COVID-19 warning; CIGO file photo
COVID-19 found in two Halifax-area schools
The province has its first school-based cases of COVID-19. One is at Graham Creighton Junior High in Cherry Brook, the other at Auburn Drive High in Cole Harbour. Public health officials say neither p...
Nov 17, 2020
Two new cases
Two new cases of COVID-19. A release from the Department of Health and Wellness says the cases are in the Central Zone and connected to previous cases, but they remain under investigation. There are n...
Nov 16, 2020
Two new COVID-19 cases, two more recoveries
There are two new cases of COVID-19 in the province. We've had two more recoveries, which means our active cases remain at 21. Public health officials say the new cases are in the central zone. They s...
Nov 16, 2020 COVID-19
Early data suggest Moderna vaccine is 94.5% effective
A second COVID-19 vaccine candidate is showing promising results south of the border. Moderna said Monday that preliminary data from its ongoing study suggests the company's vaccine is 94.5 per cent e...
Nov 16, 2020
COVID-19 makes for different Remembrance Day
It was a different Remembrance Day in the Quad Counties- and right across the province. COVID-19 changed the way we remembered Wednesday. During the Port Hawkesbury ceremony, Gary Burns, the president...
Nov 11, 2020
