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Quebec and Ontario to make COVID-19 vaccinations available for all adults in May
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Ultimately, Albertans have to step up to the plate in the next few weeks, Kenney said.
There were 2,048 new cases in the province and 632 people were in hospital, 151 of them in intensive care.
Kenney had said earlier this week that current restrictions would suffice if more people followed them. On Thursday, he said the new measures were a hard but necessary step.
Alberta also opened up two more groups to be eligible for vaccines.
Other provincial health leaders sped up plans that could get more Canadians vaccinated in the coming months.
In Ontario, where there were41 new virus-related deaths to bring the provincial total to 8,029,Health Minister Christine Elliott said the way out of the pandemic is vaccinations.