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Outbreak ends at one unit of Foothills
One of the two units at Foothills Medical Centre previously under COVID-19 outbreak protocol is no longer under the designation.
Posted: May 06, 2021 5:00 AM MT | Last Updated: May 6
Experts like registered psychologist Angela Grace, left, University of Calgary professor Shelly Russell-Mayhew and dietitian Terri Knight say Alberta s draft K-6 curriculum for health and wellness is riddled with ideas and concepts that could create body image issues and promote disordered eating. (CBC)
The COVID-19 devil runs free, yet again, in Alberta and the premier has no excuse.
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Alberta has now recorded more daily confirmed COVID-19 cases on a per capita basis than any other Canadian province or U.S. state.
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That’s more than 2,400 cases a day in a province of four million people. Nearly 30 per cent of the infected are children.
CALGARY With more than 8,800 active cases of COVID-19 in Calgary zone, Mayor Naheed Nenshi is concerned about the rapid rise of cases that he says is outstripping some of the largest crisis areas elsewhere in the world. In a statement released Thursday, he said that the peak of the second wave has already been exceeded and new infections just aren t slowing down. He also said that with the models currently available on the rate of infection in Calgary, people are becoming ill with COVID-19 at a higher rate here than what is being reported in India. We re hearing about India on the front of the news, every single day, how awful the situation is. Here s something I need you to know - the infection rate in India is approximately 200 people per 100,000. In Calgary today, it s 520 people per 100,000. It s twice as bad.