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Alberta tallied its second-highest number of new COVID-19 infections of the third wave to date Friday, with 1,616 new cases logged.
The continued surge comes as a letter from Alberta’s top doctor to industry groups provides suggests the province may lift restrictions on audiences at events in July.
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The 1,616 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported Friday came from just under 17,000 tests, representing a positivity rate of 9.6 per cent.
More-contagious variants represented more than half of that case count, with 898 more cases in Alberta detected as such strains.