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The minimum age for a COVID-19 vaccine will be lowered to anyone born in 1991 for residents of the Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo area and nearby Indigenous communities “as soon as possible,” says Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro. The new age limit also applies to Banff, which has also seen high COVID-19 rates.
Steve Buick, spokesperson for Shandro wrote in an email that “it’s by birth year, so when we say people age 30, we mean anyone who turns 30 this year.”
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COVID-19: Cases continue to climb in Alberta with more in hospital and five additional deaths Nathan Martin © Provided by Edmonton Journal Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro. Alberta saw a jump in hospitalizations of people with COVID-19 by 35 since the last report, which now brings the total number of people in hospital to 584, with 129 in the ICU. This comes after another 1,592 news cases were reported, bringing the total cases to 180,369, and five more deaths which brings the total to 2,064. The increase in hospitalizations is worrisome but predictable. Over the last year, Alberta Health recorded 41 people admitted to the hospital and 11 deaths for every 1,000 people who tested positive for COVID-19.