Your weekly COVID-19 update Every Tuesday, the Maclean's daily newsletter will catch you up on what you need to know about Canada's fight against the coronavirus. This week, Patricia Treble focuses on one story worth watching, and you can get a sneak peek here. You'll also get the same mix of Maclean's stories you expect every day if you scroll down below. Zero. On June 21, Nova Scotia reported no new cases of COVID-19. It was the first time the province had nothing to report since March 29, just before the start of its spring wave. Nova Scotia’s daily count has been edging closer and closer to zero for a while; it is averaging just six cases a day, down from 11 in the previous week and well down from the average 90 cases a day reported just a month ago. The “zero” good news extended to the rest of the East Coast—Monday also marked the first time there were no new cases reported in all of Atlantic Canada since Sept. 28, though Newfoundland and Labrador didn’t report on Monday as it was the June Day holiday (it has only had four cases in the past week). In the past week, the region has reported just 65 new cases of COVID-19. On Wednesday, Nova Scotia reopens its borders to residents from the rest of Atlantic Canada, and it is set to drop restrictions on Canadian travellers from outside the region starting mid-July. Nevertheless, outbreaks of the virus continue to occur in Canada, especially when it comes to variants of concern. Yukon has reported another30 cases of COVID-19since Saturday afternoon, meaning it now has 100 active cases out of a cumulative total for the entire pandemic of 185 cases. “We expect to see many more cases over the coming weeks, especially in our unvaccinated population,” explained Dr. Brendan Hanley, Yukon’s chief medical officer of health, in a press release. Many of the cases have been identified as being the Gamma (P.1) variant of concern , which ripped through the resort town of Whistler, B.C., earlier in the year. READ MORE >> | 
