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Alberta Health Services said as of early Wednesday afternoon 20,000 appointments had been booked.
Police services in Edmonton and Calgary had to urge people not to call 911 about vaccinations.
Kim Fandrick, who lives with her parents in a rural area south of Edmonton, logged on at 8 a.m. and within a minute the website had crashed. She tried calling 811 and got beeps.
She went back online, filled out the forms, but would get booted off before she could submit them.
Around 90 minutes later, she managed to book her mother in for Thursday afternoon. That was a relief, as the 81-year-old has a chronic lung condition and has only been out of the house 10 times since last March.
Furness: More lockdown measures very unpleasant and impossible to enforce
by News Staff
Posted Jan 8, 2021 4:52 pm EDT
Ontario Premier Doug Ford leads members of his cabinet to the daily briefing at Queen s Park in Toronto on Monday November 16, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
After a day in which Ontario shattered its daily high when it comes to new COVID-19 cases and health experts warn the healthcare system is facing unprecedented pressure, Premier Doug Ford warned “we are in a crisis” with indications that more restrictions are coming.
But are tighter lockdown measures the answer?
Cynthia Mulligan spoke with Infection Control Epidemiologist Dr. Colin Furness, who believes we should be doing even more testing than we are and that part of that solution is within our reach. He also warns that the government has already painted itself in a corner when it comes to lockdown measures and that more restrictive measures would be “very unpleasant” and impossible to en
Doug Ford warns that shutdown won t end if people keep breaking the rules
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With a staggering record high of 4,249 new COVID-19 infections reported in Ontario this morning, Premier Doug Ford is once again asking residents to stop flouting public health guidelines by gathering socially outside their homes or else. We need people to hunker down and stay home, we need you to avoid gatherings with people outside your household, we need you to practice physical distancing when out, wear a mask and wash your hands often, said Ford in a stern address to the public on Friday morning.
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Beleaguered politician Rod Phillips has resigned from his post as Ontario Finance Minister, according to Premier Doug Ford, after being caught in St. Barts amid a pandemic while actively encouraging his constituents to stay home for the holidays and then trying to hide his vacation through a series of sneaky social media posts. Today, following my conversation with Rod Phillips, I have accepted his resignation as Ontario s minister of finance, Ford said in a statement released Thursday afternoon, just hours after Phillips had returned home to Canada at the Premier s request.