Health

Red Deer down to 5 active COVID-19 cases, Alberta adds 14

Red Deer is down to five active cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday.The number of recoveries in the city is - correspondingly - up one to 105 as the total number of cases in Red Deer remains 110. Red Dee...

Oct 01, 2020

Alberta COVID-19 update for Oct. 1

Alberta's chief medical officer of health will deliver her latest update on the COVID-19 situation in the province. Dr. Deena Hinshaw's news conference was originally scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m., ...

Oct 01, 2020

Technical issue delays 5,000 negative covid-19 test results: AHS

Alberta Health Services says it is following up with Albertans whose COVID-19 test results were not successfully delivered by the automated text message or autodialer systems, between September 10 and...

Oct 01, 2020

Red Deer with 6 active COVID-19 cases

Red Deer has dropped an active case of COVID-19 and now sits with six. The number of recoveries in Red Deer has correspondingly increased by one to a total of 104.Red Deer County has three active case...

Sep 30, 2020

Alberta seeking nominations for award recognizing lifetime achievement in health

Alberta's government is seeking nominations to celebrate people who have dedicated their lives to improving the health-care system and patient outcomes in the province.The new Dr. Peter B. R. Allen Li...

Sep 30, 2020

Letter: Alberta's chief paramedic says dispatch consolidation won't hurt response times

Dear Editor,Recently AHS Emergency Medical Services (EMS) announced plans to consolidate EMS dispatch services. The work done by four municipally-run satellite sites, Calgary, Lethbridge, Red Deer and...

Sep 30, 2020

Red Deer adds two active COVID-19 cases

Red Deer has added two active cases of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours, according to the latest numbers from the province, for a total of seven. The number of recoveries in Red Deer remains listed at ...

Sep 29, 2020

Lethbridge residents protest against unsanctioned drug injection site

LETHBRIDGE, AB - "I seriously think that we are on a very destructive path. This has got no great place to go other than more bad. I mean, how many more kids do we have to have needle pricks and have ...

Sep 29, 2020

Health Minister sees no evidence consolidating EMS dispatch will hurt response times

Alberta's health minister says he's seen no evidence that consolidating Red Deer's EMS dispatch services, along with services in three other municipalities, under the provincial system will be detrime...

Sep 28, 2020

More than 1,000,000 Albertans tested for COVID-19

Roughly one-quarter of Albertans have now been tested for COVID-19.Tyler Shandro, the province's health minister, shared Monday that more than one million people in the province have been tested for t...

Sep 28, 2020