FOG BLOG ATLANTIC COVID LOG: ONLY 4 CASES TODAY HERE IN NB BUT NOVA SCOTIA THE HOT SPOT WITH 153!

2 Nova Scotians die at home due to COVID-19 complications, province reports 153 new cases...Two Nova Scotians with COVID-19 died at home due to complications related to the virus, provincial officials said Tuesday.

Both the people, a woman in her 50s and a man in his 70s, lived in the central zone, which includes the Halifax area.

Dr. Robert Strang, the province's chief medical officer of health, said in one of the cases, health officials only learned the person had contracted COVID-19 after they died. He did not say when the two people died.

"This is indeed a very sad day," Strang said at an afternoon briefing with Premier Iain Rankin...There are 1,060 active cases in the province. Cases range in age from under 10 to over 90

Nova Scotia health authority labs completed 19,174 tests on Monday, the highest daily number yet.

At a COVID-19 briefing on Monday, Strang said the new daily cases are still somewhat skewed by a backlog in processing tests and entering data at the health authority's microbiology labs. On Tuesday, he said the backlog has been cleared.