Students in Nova Scotia will not return to their classrooms for the rest of the school year, the province said Wednesday as it announced 83 new cases of COVID-19 and two more deaths. There have now been 74 deaths related to COVID-19 in Nova Scotia. He'd like to see 75 per cent of all Nova Scotians vaccinated. Currently, about 40 per cent of eligible Nova Scotians have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Nova Scotians aged 30 and up can now book vaccine appointments, and earlier this week Rankin and Strang said they expected all eligible Nova Scotians to be able to book appointments by next week.

Source: CBC News May 19, 2021 13:08 UTC