{"id":13891,"date":"2020-04-01T18:33:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T21:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=13891"},"modified":"2020-04-01T18:33:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T21:33:49","slug":"east-hants-residents-given-reassurances-over-local-covid19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=13891","title":{"rendered":"East Hants residents given reassurances over local COVID19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ENFIELD:<\/strong> The Chief Medical Officer of Health for the province is reassuring the East Hants community that while they\u2019re aware of the COVID19 cases in the community, if everyone does their part to ensure their safety there\u2019s no greater risk of them contracting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the press conference on April 1 in Halifax, Dr. Robert Strang announced 26 new cases including an additional staff member at the Magnolia in Enfield. The total is now at 173 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;17&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Strang answered two questions posed by The Laker News. The first centered around risk in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI think there is a risk in any community across N.S.,\u201d Dr. Strang said. \u201cI think we have to understand that COVID19 may be there. We have cases of COVID19 in a number of communities across Nova Scotia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said all the public health messaging is the same to avoid mass gatherings; physical distancing; stay at home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s important for everyone to understand,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t want people to come to a false conclusion about risk by comparing themselves between one community and another community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen public health is aware of cases we move in and we\u2019ll take action to identify close contacts, and if necessary, we\u2019ll push out information more broadly in a community. We need to pay attention to this and have an equal level of concern across the province.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Strang said all Nova Scotians should be following the same advice\u2014follow the prevention measures<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing special in those communities (Enfield\/Elmsdale) that doesn\u2019t apply across the whole province,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENFIELD: The Chief Medical Officer of Health for the province is reassuring the East Hants community that while they\u2019re aware of the COVID19 cases in the community, if everyone does their part to ensure their safety there\u2019s no greater risk of them contracting it. At the press conference on April 1 in Halifax, Dr. Robert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[975,196,982],"class_list":["post-13891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-covid19","tag-east-hants","tag-magnolia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}