Health

Red Deer with 240 active COVID-19 cases as of Monday

Alberta reported another 639 cases of COVID-19 on Monday.That's out of 9,838 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of 6.1 per cent.There are now 13,917 active cases in Alberta, dow...

Jan 11, 2021

Kenney to give update on COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Alberta's premier and health minister will deliver an update this afternoon on the province's response to COVID-19. Jason Kenney and Tyler Shandro are to speak at a news conference scheduled to begin ...

Andrew Snook Jan 11, 2021

Alberta RCMP reviewing whether COVID-19 death of meat-plant worker was criminal

CALGARY - RCMP in Alberta are reviewing whether the COVID-19 death of a worker at a Cargill meat-packing plant last spring is a criminal matter.Cpl. Tammy Keibel, district media relations officer for ...

Jan 11, 2021

Maskwacis continues to struggle with COVID-19 outbreak

Maskwacis and its four First Nations - Samson, Ermineskin, Montana and Louis Bull - continues to be hit hard by COVID-19.Randy Littlechild, CEO of Maskwacis Health Services, says though a state of loc...

Jan 11, 2021

Red Deer hits 10 deaths from COVID-19

Ten people in Red Deer have now died because of COVID-19.The latest death was reported on Sunday and is one of just 12 more fatalities reported province-wide for a pandemic total of 1,284. The dozen d...

Jan 10, 2021

Alberta adds COVID-19 units to vaccine priority list; 1,183 new cases reported Friday

The provincial government has announced that vaccine appointments will be offered to health-care workers in medical, surgical and COVID-19 units in Alberta starting immediately.This means about 3,300 ...

Jan 08, 2021

Vaccine rollout to 'scale up,' says Trudeau

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is doing everything it can to obtain as much vaccine as quickly as possible and says Ottawa is co-operating with the provinces and te...

Jan 08, 2021

Population of seniors increasing but generally happy

The Clearwater Regional Family & Community Support Services (FCSS) recently brought attention to councils from the County, the Town of Rocky and the Village of Caroline, that like many municipalit...

Jan 08, 2021

COVID creating ICU overflow, cancelled surgeries at Red Deer Regional Hospital

Already struggling with the capacity issues it's been dealing with for years, Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre continues to be pushed to its very limits by COVID-19."I've never seen it this bad, and ...

Jan 08, 2021

Alberta’s enhanced COVID-19 restrictions extended at least two weeks

Alberta's enhanced COVID-19 restrictions implemented last month will remain in place for another two weeks through January 21."The health measures that were put in place in December have helped to red...

Jan 07, 2021