ns N.S. announces new restrictions, higher fines as record 63 cases reported Sunday Province has reported 115 new cases in the past 2 days Premier Iain Rankin and Dr. Robert Strang, the province's chief medical officer of health, have announced stricter COVID-19 measures for all of Nova Scotia and harsher penalties for those who break public health rules. All Nova Scotians are now being asked to avoid travel outside their immediate communities unless it's for essential reasons, like work or medical appointments. People were already asked not to travel in and out of the Halifax area as of Friday morning, when the region was placed under a four-week lockdown. At a press conference Sunday, Rankin said the official order on this change will come this week, and will be in place until at least May 20.

ont Ontario reports 3,947 new COVID-19 cases and 24 more deaths Number of patients in ICUs once again reached pandemic high Ontario reported 3,947 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday as the number of patients in intensive care units once again reached a record high. The province registered 24 more deaths linked to the virus, bringing the official death toll to 7,911. Sunday's daily case count marks the third time in the past week that the province has seen fewer than 4,000 new cases. Some 2,126 people in the province remain in hospital because of the disease, a figure that has consistently been trending upward since the start of the third wave of the pandemic. Of the patients hospitalized, 851 are in intensive care units. Similar to hospitalizations, that figure has been steadily increasing in recent weeks and has reached a record high each day for the past nineteen days. Some 596 patients require ventilators to breathe.