You’ve now got a second chance to avoid isolation.
On Thursday, Nova Scotia Health reopened PCR testing to confirm rapid test results.
It had been put on hold in December as case numbers skyrocketed amid the omicron wave.
Nova Scotia Health says we continue to see a decline in new cases, which has freed up lab capacity for broader testing.
If your PCR test comes back negative you won’t need to isolate, so long as you don’t have symptoms, which officials say will reduce the number of people unnecessarily isolating.
Officials are expecting a spike in reported cases, but that doesn’t mean there’s more COVID-19 in our communities, just that we’re more accurately tracking it.
