Tim Houston's government released its plan to address challenges in health care last Friday on the last day of the Spring Sitting of the Nova Scotia Legislature.

Dr. Heather Johnson's interview starts at 49:44

Health officials in Nova Scotia are reporting 13 new COVID-19-related deaths on Thursday – one fewer than what was reported in the province's weekly COVID-19 update last week.

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The province’s virtual care program is a stopgap measure but Nova Scotians deserve a long-term primary health-care plan, MLA Claudia Chender says. “We certainly hope that VirtualCareNS is an interim program and that everyone will be attached to primary care,” the New Democratic Party representative for Dartmouth South told a meeting of the legislature’s public accounts committee Wednesday.