Daily COVID-19 update: Nova Scotia declares State of Emergency, limits gatherings to five people, requires self-isolation for anyone who has travelled outside the province

Chuck Porter, the minister who oversees implementation of the Emergency Management Act.

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The latest:

• Premier Stephen McNeil has declared a State of Emergency, invoking theEmergency Management Act;

• McNeil limits all public gatherings to five people;

• effective tomorrow at 6am, anyone who travels into Nova Scotia from outside the province must self-isolate; screeners will be placed at the airports, ferry terminals, and the roads into Nova Scotia to tell people of the requirement;

•查克•波特部长监督出现ncy Management Act, gives authority to police to arrest people and businesses violating the social distancing recommendations, and to issue summary offence tickets, with fines of up to $1,000 for people, and $7,500/day for businesses;

• all provincial parks are closed;

• there are seven new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total in Nova Scotia to 21; all of them are either people who have travelled or people who have come in close contact with people who have travelled;

• local testing for COVID-19 at the QE2 Health Science Centre can now report positive and negative results as “confirmed” without being sent to Winnipeg.

More to come.

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