July 3 COVID-19 Update

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Nova Scotia Update:
0 new deaths
0 new hospitalizations (2 total)
0 new ICU cases (0 total)
0 new cases (1064 total)
372 tests done
0 new recoveries (998 total)
3 active cases (99.72% are officially concluded)

NS has 0 new cases today, meaning there are still 3 active cases currently. 53/63 (84%) NS deaths are from Northwood and 57/63 (90%) are from long term care in general (11 different facilities have reported cases, none have an active case). NS is now at 27 days without a death and Northwood is at 35 days with no new cases. Yesterday, 372 tests were complete with 0 new cases reported.

From the Press Release:
Beginning today, July 3, inter-provincial travel within Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, without the requirement to self-isolate for Atlantic Canadian residents, is permitted. All public health directives of each province must be followed. Under Nova Scotia's Health Protection Act order, visitors from other Canadian provinces and territories must self-isolate for 14 days. Other visitors from outside the Atlantic provinces who have self-isolated for 14 days in another Atlantic province may travel to Nova Scotia without self-isolating again.

- NS has 63 deaths, making the death rate 63/1M population
- Canada's rate sitting at 220/1M
- Global rate is 67.4/1M
- US rate is 393/1M
- Austria rate is 80/1M
- Spain is 604/1M
- Sweden is 529/1M

Notable points for today:
- Spain reported 5 deaths yesterday for an increase of 0.02%
- Austria reports 0 deaths, meaning 33/35 days under 0.5% increase, 31 of them at/under 0.3%.
- The rate of increase in Canada is 0.31%. This marks 28 days in a row under a 1% increase, 18 of them at/under 0.5%. I corrected yesterday's data. There were actually 24 deaths, not 0 as reported.
- The US rate of increase rose slightly to 0.53%. They are at 34 days in a row under a 1% increase, 12 of them at/under 0.5%.
- Sweden's increase rose to 0.76% meaning 25 of the last 29 days are under 1%, 16 of them under 0.5%.

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