HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is reporting four more deaths due to COVID-19, for a total of 157 since the start of the pandemic.
Health officials said today the deaths involve one woman in her 60s, a woman in her 80s, and a woman and a man in their 90s.
Officials say there are about 351 patients in hospital with COVID-19.
Chief medical officer of health Dr. Robert Strang says the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus continues to have devastating impacts on the province's most vulnerable residents.
About 26 per cent of the people in hospital with COVID-19 are unvaccinated.
That percentage is close to triple the percentage of unvaccinated people in the general population.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 3, 2022.
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