Premier Tim Houston says students in public schools will get an extended break over the holidays.
He says students will now return to class on January 6.
The original date was January 4 but the extra two days are being added to give young people more of an opportunity to get vaccinated and as precaution with new exposures being reported in schools.
The province is also capping indoor gatherings (like house party’s) at 25 people as the holidays approach.
Meantime, our province is reporting 22 new cases of COVID-19 and 27 recoveries.
There are 18 cases in the Halifax region and four cases in Northern Zone. There is a cluster of cases in a localized community in Northern Zone and there is also evidence of limited community spread in Halifax and parts of northern Nova Scotia.
Four schools in the province have possible exposures of COVID.
Nova Scotia has 147 active cases of COVID-19. Of those, 11 people are in hospital, including four in ICU.
