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Nova Scotia reported one&nbsp;new COVID-19 death&nbsp;within the latest reporting week, which ran from Nov. 8&nbsp;to Nov. 14, as well as 14 more deaths from a previous reporting period the province didn't specify.

The 14 deaths&nbsp;were listed in&nbsp;a recently added&nbsp;category on&nbsp;

&nbsp;that launched on the dashboard on Nov. 3. The province said deaths reported in this category could be from any past reporting period.

The province also reported a daily average of 79 positive PCR tests for a total of 552.

The province&nbsp;reported 552&nbsp;new cases confirmed by PCR tests for that same time period —&nbsp;a daily average of 79. This is 

 when&nbsp;there were&nbsp;671 PCR-confirmed cases.

Nova Scotia Health&nbsp;reported 238 people in hospital with COVID-19 on Thursday.&nbsp;That is down&nbsp;from&nbsp;264 the previous week.

32 were in hospital for COVID-19 (including five&nbsp;people in ICU).

130 were in hospital for something else but have COVID-19.

76 patients contracted COVID-19 after admission.

The IWK&nbsp;Health Centre reported fewer than five hospitalizations on Thursday.

Nova Scotia Health said there were&nbsp;133 employees off work Thursday due to being diagnosed with COVID-19, awaiting test results&nbsp;or being exposed to a member of their household who tested positive.

The IWK reported 22 employees off work due to COVID-19 on Thursday.

IWK chief paints concerning picture of children in intensive care units

Dr. Andrew Lynk, the chair and chief of pediatrics at the IWK Health Centre, said during a press conference Thursday that acute care services for children are "stretched, stretched, stretched." He wants more children under five to get vaccinated.

Dr. Andrew Lynk, the chair and chief of pediatrics at the IWK Health Centre, said acute care services for children are "stretched, stretched, stretched."

Dr. Andrew Lynk

N.S. spending tens of millions of dollars on private nursing companies for long-term care

The province is paying private contract nurses at least double the hourly wage of public-sector nurses. The higher pay often comes with greater flexibility in scheduling, which some nurses say is attracting early career staff to move out of the public sector — even as health officials grapple with recruitment and retention.

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Faced with a staffing crunch made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, Nova Scotia late last year began to supplement staff in long-term care homes with 'travel nurses,' who are hired from outside the province by private companies.

Judge overseeing Lionel Desmond inquiry says final report will come out next year

The judge overseeing the inquiry looking into the circumstances surrounding a Nova Scotia war veteran who killed himself and three family members in 2017 says his final report will come out next year, not by the end of this year, as recently stated by the provincial Justice Department.

Shanna and Lionel Desmond hold their daughter Aaliyah in an old photo from the Facebook page of Shanna Desmond. 

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Shanna and Lionel Desmond hold their daughter, Aaliyah, in an old photo from the Facebook page of Shanna Desmond. The Afghanistan war veteran killed himself, his wife and daughter, and his mother early in 2017.

Woman, 64, dead in 3-vehicle collision on Highway 102

A Colchester County woman, 64, is dead following a 3-vehicle collision on Highway 102 on Thursday. A section of the highway in Goffs was closed for several hours on Thursday following a 3-vehicle collision, but has since reopened.

The side of an RCMP cruiser that says 'police.'

The RCMP is investigating an abandoned, burned vehicle on MacLean Rd in Pictou County with human remains. 

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Police closed a section of Highway 102's southbound lanes for several hours following a collision Thursday morning.

Upper Wedgeport fatal fire caused by faulty power tool

A 73-year-old woman died in an Upper Wedgeport, N.S., house fire on Wednesday that started after a power tool spontaneously caught fire.

Two have been charged with the murder of Salteaux First Nations man Lyle Night Jr. 

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Fewer people tested positive for COVID-19 on PCR tests for the reporting period of Nov. 8 to Nov. 14 compared to the previous week. The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 is also down for this reporting period.

Nova Scotia reports 1 new death from COVID-19 in weekly update

Health-care staff off work

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