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Sitting in Saskatchewan Health Authority physician town halls and then hearing about anti-restriction rallies “feels like two completely different realities” for Saskatoon child psychiatrist Dr. Tamara Hinz.
Despite government and health officials’ calls to stay home, an event billed as a “children’s freedom rally fun day” took place at Kiwanis Park on Saturday, drawing a crowd of more than 100 people many of them children. They were grouped in close proximity around tables, making crafts and getting their faces painted.
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As warmer weather takes hold, the developed world has in recent days begun to relax public health restrictions and ease into a more comfortable, if still anxious, post-pandemic reality.
“Spring blossoms and vaccinations are bringing the city out of hibernation,”
The New York Times said last week, suggesting more than a dozen local restaurants where residents might catch up on their socialising and dining out.
The UAE is continuing to reopen after achieving a vaccination rate of more than one per resident last week. British pubs and restaurants are reopening, as the UK sees just 2,000 new cases per day, a sliver of its January peak. Then there’s Israel, which achieved herd immunity weeks ago and is “partying like it’s 2019”, says
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Alberta mayor talks to Kenney, says vaccine eligibility key to local COVID-19 crisis
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By The Canadian Press on April 26, 2021.
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, NIAID-RML
EDMONTON – The mayor of the region that includes Fort McMurray says he has spoken with Premier Jason Kenney to find ways to fight a COVID-19 crisis that has brought on a state of local emergency.
Northern Alberta municipality to declare state of emergency due to COVID-19
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By The Canadian Press on April 26, 2021.
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, NIAID-RML
Council for a northern municipality has voted to declare a state of local emergency to try to stop the spread of COVID-19.
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which includes Fort McMurray, held a special meeting on Sunday to discuss concerns about the novel coronavirus.