Alberta now has 10,565 active cases of COVID-19. “We need to build on our collective success by going slowly towards allowing additional activities and not experiencing a rebound if we open to quickly,” she added about potentially easing more COVID-19 restrictions. The province also reported...
Seventy-seven more active cases of COVID-19 were reported in Alberta on Tuesday. Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, released the latest statistics that show 26 active cases in the central region, with two people in hospital. Red Deer now has nine active viral ...
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, said on social media the majority of Albertans facing severe outcomes are either unvaccinated or partially protected against COVID-19. About 85.9 per cent of non-ICU patients are unvaccinated or have partial vaccine pro...
A research team at theUniversity of Albertahas discovered a new class of drugs with the potential to prevent or treat infections in a future viral outbreak. In the paper, published in the journalNature, the team reports thatSARS-CoV-2— thevirusthat causesCOVID-19— activates a pathway in ...
Alberta broke its own record for the third time this week, logging 1,879 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. It also counted six new deaths. Manitoba set a single-day peak for virus-related deaths in the province, reporting 19 alongside 354 new COVID-19 infections. ...
Alberta’s top doctor Deena Hinshaw announced a record-breaking range of 800 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, and suggested new public health restrictions may be on the way. Alberta Health Sciences says its contact tracers are now unable to keep up with the “unprecedented” new ...
Shandro said stalled vaccine numbers have been the catalyst for the soaring case counts and hospitalizations. Alberta has seen, on average, a thousand new COVID cases each day for the last two weeks. There were 686 people in hospital Friday with the illness, including 169 ...
A vaccine record verifier app has been created for businesses to scan the QR codes from a phone and will generate a green checkmark for those who are fully vaccinated or a red ‘x’ for those who are not. The QR code will be the only acceptable form of proof of COVID vaccination star...
information about RCVs, 2) language barriers when looking for information and asking questions about RCVs, 3) lack of access to a primary care provider (PCP), 4) lack of affordable and convenient transportation options, and 5) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, lack of available vaccine ...
Possess the skills as well as experience required by Canada for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerating the economic recovery of Canada. The focus of the newly announced pathways will be on temporary workers in Canada that were employed in “hospitals and long-term care homes and on th...