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Albertans will get their old lives back from COVID lockdown faster than anyone else in Canada.
As quickly as one month from now, Premier Jason Kenney says that Alberta will be fully reopened with all major lockdown restrictions lifted, at least if vaccination continues as quickly as is now expected.
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There’s a reasonable public health argument for full reopening, which Kenney made on Wednesday. Lockdowns come with harm. Daily case counts have crashed here in the last three weeks, while hospitalization rates have peaked and are now falling. Vaccinations have taken off, with 2.55 million doses now administered.
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Alberta’s top doctor will make her first public comments about the province’s three-stage reopening plan Thursday afternoon alongside Premier Jason Kenney.
Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw is scheduled to provide an update on COVID-19 in the province at a 3:30 p.m. press conference. She was absent from Wednesday’s reopening announcement because she had booked the day off as a personal day long in advance, Kenney said.
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