Premier Jason Kenney, top health officials to provide Tuesday update about COVID-19
CBC
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney will be joined by the province's health minister and top health officials Tuesday afternoon for an update about the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer of health, Health Minister Jason Copping and Dr. Verna Yiu, president and CEO of Alberta Health Services, will take part in the news conference, which is expected to include an update about new cases of COVID-19 detected during the Thanksgiving long weekend.
The news conference begins at 3:30 p.m. MT. You can watch it live here.
Alberta families were asked to be cautious in celebrating Thanksgiving and abide by public health rules intended to ease the pressure on hospitals during the pandemic's fourth wave.
Alberta hospitals have struggled with capacity issues since case counts began rising this summer, along with the numbers of critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring intensive care beds.
Thousands of surgeries have been cancelled or delayed and the province has accepted medical help from the military, Red Cross and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
As of Friday's update, 250 of the 1,101 hospitalized COVID-19 patients were in ICU.
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