Tag Archives: Health
49 new COVID-19 cases in Alberta, three recoveries reported
EDMONTON - Alberta has confirmed an additional 49-cases of COVID-19 in the province, taking the total to 195. There are now 10 people hospitalized because of the illness and five of those are in inten...
Mar 20, 2020 Dr. Deena Hinshaw
Province gives COVID-19 update for March 20
Premier Jason Kenney will provide an update on COVID-19 in Alberta during a news conference scheduled to start at 3 p.m. Immediately following, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer of he...
Mar 20, 2020
Agencies warn domestic violence likely to rise due to COVID-19 anxiety
As self-isolation, quarantine and social distancing increase while the COVID-19 pandemic goes on, agencies are warning that incidents of domestic violence are likely to rise. The Calgary Domestic Viol...
Mar 20, 2020 (Women's Outreach Centre)
New app helps Albertans access health care
Albertans can now meet with Alberta-licensed physicians through their smartphone, thanks to an initiative by TELUS Health.The province says "Babylon by TELUS Health" is a service already available in ...
Mar 19, 2020 (Photo: Telus Health)
Alberta records first COVID-19 death
Alberta has recorded its first death from COVID-19. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer of health, says the victim is a male in his sixties from the Edmonton zone who had underlying hea...
Mar 19, 2020
Pharmacists to assess Albertans for COVID-19, manage drug supply
Pharmacists have been working hard to help Albertans assess and screen for COVID-19 and now the province says a new billing code has been created for this service.Officials say this new pharmacy servi...
Mar 19, 2020 File
What’s your role in this?
What to do in the middle of … whatever the hell this is? It’s got the world shook up and everyone paying attention. Borders are shut down, downtowns are ghost towns, calendars, workp...
Mar 19, 2020
Online map allows Albertans to search COVID-19 locations
Albertans can now look up which communities in the province have had confirmed cases of COVID-19.The updated page at alberta.ca/covid-19 provides case counts, demographic information such as genders a...
Mar 19, 2020
Federal government updates COVID-19 response
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says experts are telling his government to expect social-distancing measures to remain in place here for several weeks or months.He also says he spoke with leaders at Air...
Mar 19, 2020 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a March 19 news conference (Photo: CPAC)
Alberta gives daily COVID-19 update
As of Wednesday, 22 additional cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the province, bringing the total number of cases in Alberta to 119. There remains three confirmed cases in the Central zone, inc...
Mar 18, 2020