Demonstrating the immense toll the pandemic has taken on the mental health of young people, a University of Calgary study of 80,000 youth across the globe discovered that rates of anxiety and depression among young people have doubled since the pandemic began in 2020.
COVID-19 transmission is increasing across Alberta but is spreading the fastest in Calgary according to data collected by the province s wastewater tracking system and analysis of the reproductive rate, or "R-value."
About 80 per cent of people in Windsor-Essex in southwestern Ontario have received at least two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, but only 46 per cent have their third dose.