On Tues night, Great Canadian River Gaming Corp. proclaimed that its Casino Nova Scotia – Sydney readiness would close-fitting temporarily good the terminal of the dark to assist armed combat the spread of COVID-19 inwards the Atlantic province.
The relocation came after Nova Scotia officials issued unexampled restrictions on Tuesday that covered the entire province. That came less than a calendar week after an say forced businesses in the province’s telephone exchange region, including GCGC’s Casino Nova Scotia – Halifax, to unopen downward through at to the lowest degree May 20.
Tuesday’s measure, which officially took essence Wednesday, agency the Sydney casino, located on Nova Scotia’s eastern coast, testament remain shut until at least May 12.
On Wednesday, Nova Scotia, which is home to well-nigh 1 jillion Canadians, reported 75 unexampled cases. Currently, on that point are 489 participating cases, with 11 hospitalized and triad people inwards intensive care.
Since October, the province has reported 1,201 cases. Two people experience died.
One of the main reasons Canadian provinces are seeing upticks inwards cases is that the state is just now at present able to wild leek up its vaccination efforts. In Nova Scotia, to a greater extent than 294,000 doses have got been administered, but only when 35,549 people hold received both doses.
“We are inwards a run betwixt the variant and the vaccine,” said Dr. Henry M. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health. “There is substantive put on the line of community of interests paste across the province. We demand to slow down that spread head until we are closer to population immunity through and through our vaccination program.”
In gain to the GCGC venues, this week’s Nova Scotia closure prescribe also applies to all First Nations gaming properties and video lottery terminals inwards the province.
New Brunswick Only GCGC Casino Open
Like the United States, Canadian casinos unsympathetic lowest year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. GCGC, which has properties inwards Brits Columbia, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, reopened its two Nova Scotia properties shoemaker's last October.
However, GCGC Interim CEO Terrance Doyle said in a statement that he understood the principle given by provincial officials.
Our properties inward Nova Scotia had been operating safely and restoring services as voice of the phased reopening in the province, affording us the opportunity to play rear many of our team up members and offering a safe and pleasurable surroundings for our guests,” he said. “With the increased front of COVID-19 inward many areas of Canada inward recent weeks, we finger the various closures undertaken by provincial governments and wellness authorities are important measures at this time.”
The Sydney shutdown way the only when GCGC locale currently surface is Casino New Brunswick inwards Moncton. It operates 25 casinos and gaming venues across Canada, with most in Ontario or Brits Columbia.
COVID Forces Loto-Québec to End Restaurant Pact
In other Canadian River cassino news, Loto-Québec announced on Tuesday the conclusion of a declaration with Groupe Robuchon, which operated L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon. The establishment has remained closed since Mar 2020.
“The exceptional circumstances arising from the Covid-19 pandemic and the precariousness surrounding the clip at which the Casino will reopen have informed this decision,” Loto-Québec said in a statement.