in intensive care. The first round of eased COVID-19 restrictions in the past week includes limited school and minor sports training, allowing restaurants, cafés and pubs to reopen for dine-in services, and permitting fitness training, but only for one-on-one workouts — individual workouts without a trainer are not permitted. The province has said further easings of restrictions wouldn't begin until hospitalizations dropped below 450 and not for at least three weeks after the first stage of reopening. A decision on 2 is expected to be made on Feb. 28. Two members of Premier Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party caucus are challenging the province's COVID-19 economic restrictions and have joined a national coalition pushing against public health restrictions. Drew Barnes, MLA for Cypress-Medicine Hat, and Angela Pitt, MLA for Airdrie-East, the deputy speaker of the house and chair of committees, say Albertans have not been given adequate evidence to justify the rules, and real hardship and harm is resulting.