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The mayor told city council Thursday he doesn’t recommend bringing back additional mask rules, but if the situation significantly worsens in Calgary, he would call council back during the August break to talk about it.
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Just a few days after the provincial mask mandate expired July 1, council agreed to lift municipal rules requiring face coverings in any publicly accessible indoor space. Since then, provincial rules have continued to require masks on public transit, and in taxicabs and ride-hailing vehicles.
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We can only hope COVID-19 nods its spiky head in agreement. This plan once again puts Alberta out of line with other provinces.
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The official goal, beginning Aug. 16, is to place COVID-19 on the same level as seasonal flu, with roughly similar measures for containment.
“With strong vaccine uptake, Alberta will gradually bring COVID-19 measures in line with other respiratory viruses to ensure health system capacity for the fall,” Dr. Deena Hinshaw, chief medical officer of health, said Wednesday.
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We can only hope COVID-19 nods its spiky head in agreement. This plan once again puts Alberta out of line with other provinces.
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The official goal, beginning Aug. 16, is to place COVID-19 on the same level as seasonal flu, with roughly similar measures for containment.
“With strong vaccine uptake, Alberta will gradually bring COVID-19 measures in line with other respiratory viruses to ensure health system capacity for the fall,” Dr. Deena Hinshaw, chief medical officer of health, said Wednesday.
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But the United Nurses of Alberta and the Opposition NDP says that data doesn’t match the reality on the ground.
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Deb Gordon, the chief operating officer for AHS, said Friday that more than 98 per cent of beds in acute and emergency care are available provincewide.
Gordon says there are only two locations Fort Vermilion and Elk Point where emergency services have closed and forced patients to be sent elsewhere at certain times.