Nurses in Atlantic Canada are being asked to help as the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hits Ontario hard — and some on P.E.I. The child who was hospitalized due to COVID-19 has been discharged, the Chief Public Health Office confirmed. (Tracy Lightfoot/CBC)Nova Scotia is placing new restrictions on who can travel to the province, with exceptions for residents of Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, where COVID-19 case counts are low. New Brunswick had no new cases for the first time in over a month, and stands at 139 active cases. Non-frontline health care workers needed to maintain health care system capacityFirefighters, police officers, power-line workers.

Source: CBC News April 21, 2021 09:45 UTC