Tag Archives: Health
Red Deer to receive 1,950 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
Red Deer is set to receive its first doses of COVID-19 vaccine. Premier Jason Kenney announced Tuesday afternoon that the second shipment of 25,350 doses of the Pfizer vaccine has arrived in Alberta, ...
Dec 22, 2020
Premier, health minister to update Albertans on COVID-19 pandemic
Alberta's premier and health minister will be joining the chief medical officer of health for today's update on the COVID-19 pandemic in the province. Jason Kenney, Tyler Shandro and Dr. Deena Hinshaw...
Dec 22, 2020
Bethany Collegeside nurse receives Hero of the Year award
The Alberta Continuing Care Association has named a Red Deer nurse one of its three recipients of the 2020 Hero of the Year award. Nicola Devoe, an LPN and 16-year staff member at Bethany Collegeside,...
Dec 22, 2020
Red Deer seniors facility mourns loss of two residents to COVID-19
A seniors living facility in north Red Deer is mourning the loss of two of its residents from COVID-19. The deaths related to the outbreak at Points West Living are Red Deer's first from COVID-19. A w...
Dec 21, 2020
Red Deer with 415 active COVID-19 cases as of Monday
Alberta reported another 1,240 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday.That's out of 18,306 tests for a positivity rate of about 6.8 per cent.The number of active cases now sits at 19,165, a decrease of 36.Th...
Dec 21, 2020
Dr. Hinshaw shares COVID-19 update for Dec. 21
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. Yo...
Dec 21, 2020
Province calls for travellers from United Kingdom to get tested for COVID-19
Alberta's chief medical officer of health is asking anyone in Alberta that has returned from the United Kingdom within the last 14 days to get tested for COVID-19.Dr. Deena Hinshaw is strongly encoura...
Dec 21, 2020
2nd COVID-19 vaccine authorized in US preparing to ship out
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. - Workers on Sunday began packaging shipments of the second COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., a desperately needed boost to efforts to bring the coronavirus pandemic under c...
Dec 20, 2020
CP NewsAlert: Canada passes 500,000 COVID-19 cases following Saskatchewan report
Canada has surpassed 500,000 cases of COVID-19 as infections continue to surge in several provinces.Saskatchewan pushed the country over the grim threshold today, with 252 new cases reported.Earlier i...
Dec 19, 2020
Alberta launches new system to track drug overdose deaths
The Government of Alberta is launching what it calls the most comprehensive opioid surveillance system in the country.Up-to-date data on deaths and EMS calls will now be shared monthly as opposed to t...
Dec 18, 2020