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There are eight new COVID-19 deaths to report in Nova Scotia.

The province has updated its online dashboard for the seven-day period ending August 22nd.

That number marks a drop from the previous report when there were eleven.

Meantime, there were 34 new hospital admissions and 1,360 lab-confirmed cases of the virus.

Those numbers are also down from the previous report when there were 40 hospitalizations and 1,445 new PCR-confirmed cases.