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Article content My COVID Story: How have you been impacted by coronavirus? Postmedia is looking to speak with people who may have been impacted by the growing second wave of COVID-19 here in Alberta. Do you have a child or teen who caught COVID-19? Are you a front-line worker? Have you been immunized? Send us an email at reply@calgaryherald.com to tell us your experience, or send us a message via this form. ‘We are far from getting out of this’: COVID-19 restrictions extended through at least Jan. 21 Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw. Photo by Government of Alberta ....
Article content Alberta Health Services is hiring to bolster its COVID-19 immunization efforts amid a slower-than-expected rollout of the vaccine, the pace of which has picked up in recent days. But while AHS officials won’t say how many people they hope to recruit, they insist there’s a sufficient workforce to deliver the 46,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines that have been delivered to the province. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or AHS recruiting for ramped-up COVID-19 vaccination effort as Kenney says pace accelerating Back to video “AHS has the staffing needed to deliver all current supply of the vaccine,” said an AHS statement provided Thursday. ....
What’s happening now The province is estimating 1,300 cases of COVID-19 for its Jan. 1 update, and 900 cases for its Jan. 2 update. Anyone arriving in Canada starting Jan. 7 will need to have a negative COVID-19 test before boarding and may have to quarantine in a federal facility if they have inadequate isolation plans, the federal government says. Officials believed in late summer that an economic recovery would not magically happen if lockdowns and public health restrictions disappeared, a newly obtained federal document shows. The province is estimating 1,200 cases of COVID-19 for its Dec. 31 update. Scads of skaters at northwest Calgary’s Bowness Park prompted city police and bylaw officers to restrict access to the recreation area Wednesday. ....
A 63-year old Medicine Hat woman says it was “mind boggling” after she became the first long term care home resident in Alberta to receive the COVID-19 Moderna vaccine Wednesday. ....