You can only enter Nova Scotia for essential travel or if you’re a permanent resident of Nova Scotia.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): essential healthcare workers
List of essential healthcare workers allowed to enter Nova Scotia from outside the province.
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Essential healthcare workers
People from outside Nova Scotia can only enter Nova Scotia for essential travel (you're not allowed to enter Nova Scotia for non-essential travel). You can enter Nova Scotia for essential travel if you're an essential healthcare worker who is moving to the province for a new job.
Essential healthcare workers include:
- all diagnostic imaging type classifications (for example, MRI, ultrasound, echocardiography and CT)
- allied primary health practitioners (NOC 3124)
- autism and other mental health and addictions support workers
- cardiology technologists and electrophysiological diagnostic technologists, n.e.c. (NOC 3217)
- clinical therapists
- continuing care assistants and care team assistants
- counsellors (NOC 4153)
- dentists
- dietitians
- general practitioners and family physicians (NOC 3112)
- home support workers, excluding housekeepers; labour market impact assessment required (NOC 4412)
- hygienists
- licensed practical nurses (NOC 3233)
- medical device reprocessing technicians
- medical laboratory assistants
- medical laboratory technicians and pathologists’ assistants (NOC 3212)
- medical laboratory technologists (NOC 3211)
- medical radiation technologists (NOC 3215)
- nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates (NOC 3413)
- nurse practitioners
- nursing co-ordinators and supervisors (NOC 3011)
- occupational therapists (NOC 3143)
- other dental health professionals, excluding secretaries or office staff
- other professional occupations in health diagnosing and treating (NOC 3125)
- paramedical occupations (NOC 3234)
- paramedics
- pharmacists (NOC 3131)
- pharmacy practice assistants
- physiotherapists
- psychologists (NOC 4151)
- public health contact tracing support staff and administrators
- public health nurses
- public health officers and public health officer trainees
- registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses (NOC 3012)
- respiratory therapists, clinical perfusionists and cardiopulmonary technologists (NOC 3214)
- social workers (NOC 4152)
- specialist physicians (NOC 3111)
- ward and unit aides
- ward and unit clerks