Access to COVID-19 testing remains widely available in Nova Scotia. In an effort to ensure all Nova Scotians have access to COVID-19 testing as needed, the Public Health Mobile Units (PHMU) will be offering testing in the communities listed below. All upcoming PHMU clinics can be found online at https://www.nshealth.ca/PHMU.
Next week Nova Scotia Health’s COVID-19 vaccine outreach clinics will be offering drop-in vaccines in Central, Eastern and Western zones to help support vaccine accessibility.
Nova Scotia Health, in partnership with IWK Health and Emergency Health Services (EHS), is providing a mobile primary care clinic for the public at Cobequid Community Health Centre, 40 Freer Lane, Lower Sackville, on Dec. 27 and Dec. 30.
People who are at highest risk of being exposed to the monkeypox (mpox) virus can now book their second dose appointment for Imvamune vaccine. Nova Scotia Health will host three vaccine clinics at the Public Health Offices in Northern Zone, in Amherst, New Glasgow and Truro. These clinics will offer free first and second doses of the mpox vaccine
Nova Scotia Health is providing Nova Scotians with increased ways to access care. The Mobile Primary Care Clinics and VirtualCareNS are two innovative models of care that have been implemented quickly in response to the need for primary care services. Informed by best practice evidence, they are being evaluated in real time to inform spread and scale across the province.
With the holiday season upon us, Nova Scotia Health is anticipating an increase in people looking to visit their loved ones in our facilities. With COVID-19 still active in our communities, along with other respiratory viruses, like influenza and RSV, we want to remind Nova Scotians about who is permitted to visit or accompany patients, and what is required when entering Nova Scotia Health facilities.
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