Alberta can start ‘significantly relaxing’ COVID-19 rules once hospitalizations dip: Kenney At the same time, Premier Jason Kenney said Alberta had likely hit the peak of Omicron cases calling it “good news.”He added hospitalizations are not expected to peak for another two weeks.
He also said he was hopeful the province could start easing restrictions soon.“All the frontline health care workers are quite demoralized right now by the disconnect of what the messaging is by our government and what’s actually happening in our hospitals,” Medicine Hat emergency room physician Dr.
Paul Parks told Global News.Hospitalizations continued to rise, up to 1,191 people Friday from 1,131 people on Thursday — numbers previously unprecedented in the pandemic.
The number of patients being treated in intensive care dropped by one person to 107 on Friday.Eight additional deaths were reported to Alberta Health in the last 24 hours, bringing the province’s death toll to 3,429.Alberta reported 3,592 lab-confirmed cases on Friday from just over 10,500 tests.