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Alberta is moving K-12 students to at-home learning, closing patios and salons, and increasing fines for rulebreakers in an effort to stem a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
The measures, announced by Premier Jason Kenney Tuesday night, are the strongest put in place since last spring and apply to any region or community except for those with fewer than 50 cases per 100,000 people and fewer than 30 active cases.
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By sharing information and discussing the enforcement actions this way, on top of doubling the fines, public health orders will be enforced more effectively and consistently than before, Madu said.
The comments come the same day the Whistle Stop Cafe in Mirror, Alta., was shut down after defying health orders for months and just days after a rodeo in Bowden, Alta., hosted hundreds of people, most without masks and not physically distancing.
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The premier and province s justice minister said Wednesday they ll continue to leave the enforcement of public health orders up to police and other agencies. We, as elected folks, cannot direct operational decisions on individual cases by police or law enforcement agencies, said Alberta Premier Jason Kenney.
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Three weeks ago, Katie Heidt and her husband pulled their two children from their elementary school amid soaring cases of COVID-19 over concerns for their own health. After being vaccinated, they decided to send them back to in-person learning this week.
But now they’re shifting back again after Premier Jason Kenney announced Tuesday evening that all K-12 students in the province would be moving online beginning Friday.
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Alberta is moving K-12 students to at-home learning, closing patios and salons, and increasing fines for rulebreakers in an effort to stem a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
The measures, announced by Premier Jason Kenney Tuesday night, are the strongest put in place since last spring and apply to any region or community except for those with fewer than 50 cases per 100,000 people and fewer than 30 active cases.
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