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Sahra Kaahiye, a respiratory therapist at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, says being the first Albertan to receive a COVID-19 vaccination felt like a “historic” moment.
“I felt honored and very grateful to be part of this entire experience. … When I woke up this morning I wasn’t expecting to be the first person in Alberta to get the injection,” she said Dec. 15.
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Health-care workers in the province’s two largest cities received the first vaccinations on Dec. 15, Premier Jason Kenney announced at the government’s COVID-19 update.
SASKATOON A newly released Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre (SPCC) inmate says he learned he had COVID-19 shortly after he was released. He believes he contracted the illness due to the handling of a still-active coronavirus outbreak that began at the facility in late November. “They play with our lives,” Kevin Crane said. “COVID is a sentence as well, might as well include that in our sentences.” As of Wednesday, 67 inmates and 18 staff members were infected with COVID-19 at SPCC, according to the province. Crane, 44, was sent to the jail in early September to serve a sentence. Shortly before he was released on Dec. 9, Crane said two inmates in his unit became infected with COVID-19.
CALGARY It s an historic moment in Alberta s battle against the COVID-19 pandemic as the province enters its second day of immunizations Wednesday. It comes after 3,900 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were delivered to health-care workers on the frontlines, with the first vaccines administered late Tuesday afternoon in Calgary and Edmonton. I’m feeling overwhelmingly privileged, said ICU nurse Tanya Harvey, who was the first Calgary frontline worker to receive the vaccine at the Foothills Medical Centre. I’m feeling like I am at the beginning of a recovery for our province, for our people, our communities, our economy, and our healthcare system because that’s what this is this represents turning the corner on beating the coronavirus.