Alberta’s chief medical officer of health is set to provide her latest update on the COVID-19 situation in the province.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw will speak during a news conference scheduled for 3:30 p.m. You can watch the news conference below once it begins.
Monday’s numbers can be found here.
Premier Jason Kenney said Monday that overall COVID-19 transmission in Alberta is going down, but public health restrictions are still needed to safeguard the health-care system and to keep the more contagious COVID-19 variants at bay.
Kenney told a news conference yesterday that without action, officials would have to cancel thousands more surgeries and make decisions on who gets intensive care.
But he says the emergency management cabinet committee will discuss reopening strategies this week and next, and that it will be tied in large part to the percentage of the population that gets vaccinated.
He says early this week, more than 50 per cent of eligible Albertans will have had at least one vaccine dose.
(With file from The Canadian Press)
