COVID-19 receiving care in hospital on Friday, with 127 of them in intensive care units.That’s compared to 1,586 in hospital on Thursday, with 126 people in the province’s ICUs.
Reality check on Alberta politicians’ statements on schools, COVID-19 transmission and vaccines On Tuesday, Premier Jason Kenney announced his plan to relax COVID-19 measures.
The restrictions exemption program was lifted at midnight on Wednesday while the mask mandate will be lifted on March 1 if hospitalizations continue to trend downward over the coming weeks.During a COVID-19 update Thursday, Health Minister Jason Copping said Alberta’s ICU numbers are within normal capacity.An additional 23 COVID-19 deaths were reported to the province over the past 24 hours.
There have now been 3,718 Albertans who have died due to COVID-19.There were 24,154 active cases Friday as the province added an additional 1,400 lab-confirmed cases.