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Alberta reported 1,887 new cases of COVID-19 today. Fifteen new deaths were reported and 716 people are currently in the hospital, with 136 of those patients in the ICU.
Calgary city council has extended its mandatory mask bylaw to December 2021, but it can be repealed earlier. City fines now start at $100 for failing to wear a mask where required.
Alberta expects to administer the first doses of COVID-19 vaccination to 29,000 health-care and continuing-care workers by the end of the year and begin vaccinating nursing home residents later this month, Health Minister Tyler Shandro announced Monday.
All participants at Calgary rallies protesting COVID-19 restriction can expect to be ticketed, say city police.
Author of the article: Anna Junker
Publishing date: Dec 14, 2020 • December 14, 2020 • 3 minute read • Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta s Chief Medical Officer of Health, speaks during a provincial COVID-19 update at the Federal Building at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton, on Friday, March 27, 2020. Photo by Ian Kucerak/Postmedia Photo by Ian Kucerak /Postmedia
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Twenty-nine thousand health-care workers in Alberta are set to receive doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of December, the province’s health minister announced Monday.
Tyler Shandro said the first 3,900 doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine will be received on Tuesday and another 25,350 doses will be received next week.
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Alberta Health Officials Provide Update on COVID-19 Vaccine – December 14, 2020
In Edmonton, Tyler Shandro (Alberta’s health minister), Paul Wynnyk (provincial deputy minister of municipal affairs and chair of the province’s COVID-19 vaccine task force) and Dr. Deena Hinshaw (Alberta’s chief medical officer of health) provide an update on the province’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan. The first shipment of vaccines have arrived in Canada and Alberta is scheduled to begin administering the Health Canada approved Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on December 16. Intensive-care unit doctors and nurses, respiratory therapists and long-term care workers have been given priority for the first shots. (no interpretation)
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Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro says 3,900 Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines will arrive in the province on Tuesday, with 25,250 more doses arriving next week. By the end of December, 29,000 health-care workers will have received the vaccine. Vaccinations begin Wednesday.
“It’s the first real ray of light in the dark night that our health-care professionals have lived through for 10 months now,” Shandro said. “It’s not over. These next few weeks are going to be the toughest yet but relief is on the way and it’s starting this week.”
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