Health

Ponoka adjusts to new pandemic restrictions

The Town of Ponoka is implementing new restrictions, effective immediately, until further notice in response to new provincial health restrictions announced this week to help reduce the spread of COVI...

Nov 27, 2020

Flu vaccinations well up in Alberta over last year

Nearly 1.3 million Albertans have been immunized for influenza this year. That's more than 228,000 more people than at the same time last year. "What's more, we have still not seen a single lab-confir...

Nov 27, 2020

Red Deer MLA rejects ‘socialist lockdown’ over COVID-19

The MLA for Red Deer-South says going into lockdown over surging COVID-19 cases in the province would be the wrong thing to do. Jason Stephan delivered a member statement in the Alberta Legislature de...

Nov 27, 2020

Emergency doctors say city councillor wrong about them being 'muzzled' over COVID-19

A group of 21 physicians who make up the emergency room team at Red Deer Regional Hospital says it unanimously disagrees with comments made this week by City Councillor Buck Buchanan.During a meeting ...

Nov 26, 2020

Alberta to pilot rapid COVID-19 testing program

Alberta will soon begin piloting point-of-care rapid testing for COVID-19 at select sites across the province.The government says in a release that over the last two months, Alberta Health Services (A...

Nov 26, 2020

Hinshaw says she doesn't dictate policy decisions

EDMONTON - Alberta's chief medical officer of health says she does not dictate public health decisions, nor should she, because she is not an elected official.Dr. Deena Hinshaw says she's "profoundly ...

Nov 26, 2020

Red Deer with 158 active COVID-19 cases

Alberta announced another 1,077 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. That's out of 15,932 tests completed over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of 6.8 per cent.There are now 14,052 active cases in th...

Nov 26, 2020

Hinshaw to address reports of political interference, tension over Alberta’s COVID-19 response

Alberta's chief medical officer of health says she will address reports of political interference and tension over the province's COVID-19 response when she delivers her latest update this afternoon. ...

Nov 26, 2020

Alberta announces new acute care measures for visitors

Effective Nov. 25, Alberta Health Services (AHS) is introducing temporary measures for visitor access to AHS acute care sites that have an outbreak or are in communities where COVID-19 transmission is...

Nov 26, 2020

Albertans need to follow all COVID-19 measures to be successful: Hinshaw

Alberta's chief medical officer of health repeated her message that the daily rise in COVID-19 cases in the province, as well as the growing number and extent of outbreaks in acute care facilities, re...

Nov 25, 2020