Tag Archives: Health

Sandstone Pharmacies offering asymptomatic COVID-19 testing
Sandstone Pharmacies announced this week that it has partnered with Calgary health innovator CardiAi to provide Albertans with easy, local access to accurate COVID-19 testing at over 20 pharmacy and l...
Feb 10, 2021

Close to $500M available to front-line workers in Alberta
Alberta is pledging close to $500 million in support for front-line workers in the province."The pandemic has of course put a lot of pressure on everyone from families to communities to entire industr...
Feb 10, 2021

Province keeping close watch over variant COVID strains
Alberta's chief medical officer of health says they are closely watching how COVID-19 cases are trending, but there is no specific benchmark on how many variant cases need to be identified for the pro...
Feb 09, 2021

Red Deer with 281 active COVID-19 cases
Alberta confirmed 195 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday.That's out of 7003 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of about 3.2 per cent.The number of active cases in the province is ...
Feb 09, 2021

Dr. Hinshaw shares COVID-19 update for Feb. 9
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...
Feb 09, 2021

Province expanding rapid COVID testing at care homes, developing workplace pilots
The Government of Alberta growing its COVID-19 testing capacity.Health Minister Tyler Shandro announced Tuesday that 36,000 staff in care facilities across Alberta will have regular rapid tests."I'm p...
Feb 09, 2021

Feds to require negative COVID-19 test at land borders
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says starting next week, anyone arriving in Canada by land will also need to show a recent negative COVID-19 test.Trudeau says the new measure will kick in Feb. ...
Feb 09, 2021

Feds to require negative COVID-19 test at land borders
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says starting next week, anyone arriving in Canada by land will also need to show a recent negative COVID-19 test.Trudeau says the new measure will kick in Feb. ...
Feb 09, 2021

Alberta pastor charged after Sunday church services violated COVID-19 rules
EDMONTON, AB - The pastor of an Edmonton-area church that had been holding Sunday services with as many as 300 people has been charged with violating COVID-19 health rules.RCMP say James Coates of Gra...
Feb 09, 2021

City reviewing new provincial guidelines for sport activities
The City of Red Deer says it continues to review and assess the impact of the provincial government's surprise announcement on Saturday of changes to restrictions for children's team and school sports...
Feb 09, 2021