Alberta reports 1,183 new COVID-19 cases, 1 more death on Sunday

A robot dog operating alongside ATVs in the southwest U.S. Photo: Courtesy Ghost Robotics.

Police in Windsor, Ont., commenced their enforcement Saturday of an injunction granted on Friday by an Ontario judge to allow for protesters at the Ambassador Bridge to be cleared out. Sean O’Shea has more details on how the enforcement proceeded, with protesters closest to the bridge seen moving back peacefully, while others drove their vehicles away from the area.

COVID-19 in Nova Scotia declined slightly since Friday, the province announced on Saturday.In an abbreviated weekend news release, the province said there were 79 people in hospital who were admitted due to COVID-19 and were receiving specialized care in a designated unit. That’s down by three since Friday.However, another three people were in intensive care, for a total of 14.

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SALT LAKE CITY - Traffic deaths decreased in Utah after the state enacted the strictest drunken driving laws in the nation five years ago, new research published Friday by a U.S. government agency shows.The findings, which pertain to fatalities involving and not involving alcohol, provide initial validation for conservative lawmakers who passed the law over concerns from restaurant and tourism industry lobbyists.In the study published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, researchers wrote that, in the years after Utah changed the drunken driving threshold from .08% to .05% blood-alcohol content, the number of crashes and fatalities fell even though drivers logged more miles."Changing the law to .05% in Utah saved lives and motivated more drivers to take steps to avoid driving impaired," said Dr.

HARPER, Kan. - Rain on a wedding day can be upsetting for any couple, but a tornado can be downright frightening during the vows.In some cultures, rain is viewed as good luck, symbolizing various things from fertility to unity. It can also represent that your marriage will last a lifetime. Candra and Caleb Pence would agree.It was May 19, 2012, and the 21-year-old bride was ready to marry the man of her dreams.

MOSCOW - With the risk of war looming larger, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden held a high-stakes telephone call Saturday as a tense world watched and worried that an invasion of Ukraine could begin within days.Before talking to Biden, Putin had a telephone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, who met with him in Moscow earlier in the week to try to resolve the biggest security crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War. A Kremlin summary of the call suggested that little progress was made toward cooling down the tensions.The closely watched call between Biden and Putin began shortly after 11 a.m.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital Saturday condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims — saying the money belongs to Afghans.Protesters who gathered outside Kabul's grand Eid Gah mosque asked America for financial compensation for the tens of thousands of Afghans killed during the last 20 years of war in Afghanistan.Biden's order, signed Friday, allocates another $3.5 billion in Afghan assets for humanitarian aid to a trust fund to be managed by the U.N.

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COVID-19 on Saturday.According to the provincial COVID-19 dashboard, the deaths involve a person in their 70s and two people in their 80s in Zone 1 and one person in their 90s in Zone 4.A total of 286 people with COVID-19 have now died in New Brunswick. Anti-mandate demonstration in Fredericton enters Day 2 Since Friday, hospitalizations have dropped by 13, for a total of 122 people in hospital.

Ottawa is seeing another influx of people in the downtown as the demonstrations against COVID-19 public health measures and vaccine mandates enters its third weekend. Reports say there was some sort of party or additional protest late Friday night.

WILLINGBORO, Pa. - Officials in Burlington County announced Saturday that a man was shot and killed in a parking lot in a Willingboro shopping center. The investigation began after officers were called to the Kennedy Plaza in the 400 block of John F. Kennedy Way just after 7:30 p.m.

COLOMBO (News 1st); President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that the nature or extent of the challenges will not matter in fulfilling the promises made to the people.He noted that development activities continue in the country while taking necessary steps to control the COVID-19 pandemic.The President also pointed out that the economy, which had been collapsed for nearly two years, is gradually recovering.The President made these remarks participating in the first round of discussions in a series of sessions with professionals representing various fields, held at the President’s House on Friday (11).The professionals who participated in the discussion said that they are further committed to make the national programme a success by giving the necessary strength to achieve the goals desired by the President, said a statement.The professionals vehemently rejected the allegations spread by some sections with the objective of achieving narrow political agendas, the statement added.Experts in the field said that the new approach to agriculture initiated by the President is being continuously supported by the researchers and entrepreneurs who are engaged full time in these fields, further noted the statement.Representatives from a wide range of fields, including education, policy, sociology, agriculture, research, water and renewable energy, medical, engineering and innovation, were present at the discussion with the President.Ministers, State Ministers, Members of Parliament, the Governor of the Central Bank, the Secretary to the President, the Principal Advisor to the President and many others were also present.

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COVID-19 cases and three deaths from the disease on Sunday.The province said the deaths involved a man in his 70s in the South zone linked to the outbreak at Trinity Reformed Church in Lethbridge, a man in his 60s in the South Zone and a man in his 70s in the Edmonton zone. All three cases included comorbidities.

This is Part 2 of a two-part feature about the Whyte Avenue area before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Read Part 1 here.Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Whyte Avenue was an area full of energy.

AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.The man’s identity is not being released to protect patient confidentiality, but Alberta Health has reported he is receiving treatment and is recovering after being diagnosed with a case of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.“I continue to recommend AstraZeneca for anyone who is 55 and older, and to recommend that all Albertans get vaccinated as soon as they are able. It is the best way to protect your health and the health of those around you,” Alberta chief medical officer of health Dr.

COVID-19 among school students and staff if he didn’t know the circumstances. Concerns over public trust erosion after lack of details on COVID-19 birthday party outbreak Kenney said during two news conferences this week that the outbreak in Athabasca, Alta., was one of the worst in the entire province and had stemmed from a birthday party.“Apparently the virus had a 100 per cent attack rate at that birthday party.

Alberta Health identified 1,646 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, Dr. Deena Hinshaw said Thursday. Julia Wong reports.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has twice mentioned an outbreak at a children’s birthday party this week, however there are no details about where exactly it took place, when it happened or how many infections are connected to this supposed “superspreader” event.On Monday, the premier was asked about transmission in school-aged children at a news conference. He said the problem does not appear to be in-school transmission, but rather socializing.“I was just briefed — we did have to suspend schools in Athabasca County, a couple of them, a few of them.

made-in Alberta COVID-19 vaccine marked a major milestone Thursday with the first recruits involved in a clinical trial injected with the vaccine.Edmonton-based Entos Pharmaceuticals, led by University of Alberta researcher Dr. John Lewis, began Phase 1 of its clinical trial Thursday.The first participants were injected with the Covigenix VAX-001 vaccine at the Canadian Center for Vaccinology in Halifax, N.S.The centre will enrol up to 73 health adults aged 18 to 55 and 65 to 84.

COVID-19 in Alberta’s wastewater will soon be coming to an end.Since last year, researchers from Alberta Health Services and Alberta Precision Laboratories have been studying samples taken from wastewater treatment plants around the province for the presence of COVID-19.Dr.

COVID-19 vaccine shots are expected to be given out to Indigenous people living in and around Calgary this week, as part of a second immunization clinic tailored to that population in the city.Roughly 160 people a day are expected to get their vaccines at the clinic, which opened Wednesday at the Best Western Premier hotel in northeast Calgary.The clinic is the second of its kind to run in the city. The first, set up last month at the Circle of Wisdom, saw about 20 Indigenous people living in the urban Calgary area each day for the couple of weeks it was open.

Alberta pilot will see 10 doctors’ offices administer COVID-19 vaccines Ramazi said there are some advantages to using machine learning for COVID-19.“If you use the right algorithms and if you modify them in the right way so you can use them properly, you have the freedom of not worrying much about how these will be really influencing each other.

COVID-19 cases.Edmonton public board chair Trisha Estabrooks said Tuesday evening that there have been 39 confirmed cases of COVID-19 — 34 students and five staff members — since April 7 when students returned to class after spring break.“How can we not be concerned? Here we are a year and more into this pandemic, we’re in a third wave, this is sort of the final quarter – we’re just about to start quarter four – and here we are slammed with again just a spike in cases again.

COVID-19 vaccines to their patients.To start, each clinic will get 200 doses of the Moderna vaccine, the province said. The pilot will look at the best ways to transport, book and administer the vaccine through these clinics.“Since the start of the pandemic, community physicians have worked hard to support and protect their patients.“This pilot is another step forward,” Health Minister Tyler Shandro said in a news release on Wednesday.“Albertans will now have another way to receive their COVID-19 vaccines from an important part of our health-care system.” Premier says gathering limits can ease once half of Alberta has immunity.

Moderna COVID-19 vaccine over 90% effective 6 months after booster shot, data shows He adds that it’s frustrating to receive a lack of reliable information when it comes to exactly when pharmacists should be receiving their weekly shipments of the vaccine.According to Alberta Blue Cross, vaccine shipments are coordinated between Alberta Health and pharmacy wholesale distributors. ‘Unhinged conspiracy theorists’: Kenney blasts protesters for threatening Dr.

COVID-19 update from Dr. Deena Hinshaw on Tuesday afternoon.The province’s chief medical officer of health is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m.

COVID-19 pandemic.Kenney promised more aid last week after his government introduced a new round of restrictions to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. Alberta shuts down indoor dining, group fitness amid surging 3rd wave COVID-19, variant cases Retailers are limited to 15 per cent customer capacity and restaurants can only offer takeout or curbside service, although patios remain open.The Opposition NDP says Kenney’s government has failed for a year to properly manage economic supports, saying the money is always too little, too late.

COVID-19 pandemic.The spring edition of Downtown Dining Week kicks off Tuesday and runs until April 25. Downtown Dining Week in Edmonton aims for busy closing weekend The event comes amid public health restrictions that ban indoor dining across Alberta.

Jason Kenney is scheduled to provide Albertans with an update on the province’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout Monday morning.The premier is scheduled to speak about the progress of Alberta’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution at 11 a.m. MT.

COVID-19: Crowd gathers outside GraceLife Church west of Edmonton Sunday to protest closure “A lot of nation members have been showing up.

Positive COVID-19 tests lead to postponed matches at World Men’s Curling Championship in Calgary: officials The positive tests did not come from the six teams that qualified for the playoffs, and those who tested positive did not have symptoms, according to Curling Canada.All playoff teams nevertheless underwent testing Saturday morning. Games were on hold until test results cleared athletes to get back on the ice.The World Curling Federation has not identified the number of cases, saying those involved were isolating and contact tracing was underway.A playoff game between the United States and Switzerland, and semifinal games involving Sweden, Russia and Scotland were on Saturday’s schedule.

Alberta’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout expands to front-line health-care workers on Monday The deaths include:The province now has 13,687 active cases, 144,020 recoveries and 2,012 deaths.As of Saturday, the Calgary zone has 6,361 active cases, the Edmonton zone has 3,320, the North zone has 1,815, the Central zone has 1,124 and the South zone has 955. There are 112 cases in unknown zones.

COVID-19 vaccine rollout is expanding to include front-line health-care workers in Phase 2C.The province said more than 240,000 eligible health-care workers can start booking vaccine appointments on Monday, April 12.“As part of Phase 2C of Alberta’s vaccine rollout, nurses, doctors, dentists and any health-care workers in patient care facilities or providing direct patient care in the community will receive the vaccine,” the province said in a news release.

#YYC #CurlingBubble #Curling. pic.twitter.com/8UrKVpRGQf— Moses Woldu (@MosesWoldu) April 10, 2021The United States and Switzerland had been scheduled to play in a playoff matchup Saturday morning.The tournament is being held at Calgary’s Markin MacPhail Centre and sees competitors enter the so-called “bubble” in an effort to keep COVID-19 out of the event.“All teams that made the playoffs will undergo testing on Saturday morning, and until the results are clear and it’s known that the players and event staff are safe, no further games will be played,” Curling Canada said.

COVID-19 outbreak involving at least 56 cases at Lakeland College’s campus in Vermilion, Alta., according to the post-secondary institution’s president.In an update posted on the school’s website on Friday, Alice Wainwright-Stewart wrote that 45 of the cases are now confirmed to involve the B.1.1.7 variant, which was first discovered in the U.K.She said 52 cases involve students while four involve staff.“The investigation is in the early stages, however, at this time AHS (Alberta Health Services) has shared there is evidence that these cases have spread as a result of isolated off-campus social gatherings, which are not in compliance with provincial public health guidance from the chief medical officer of health.”Wainwright-Stewart said the

COVID-19 restrictions that took effect on Friday.Alberta Health Services told Global News that staff visited the Whistle Stop Café on Friday, “in response to public claims by the operator that they would not be complying with COVID-19 restrictions.”The café is in Mirror, Alta., which is located about 160 kilometres south of Edmonton, near Lacombe.As Alberta grapples with its highest number of new COVID-19 cases so far in 2021, a spike driven by new and more easily spread variants of the novel coronavirus, the provincial government announced earlier this week it would reintroduce some public health measures, including the prohibition of dine-in service at restaurants.“As a result of non-compliance with CMOH (chief medical officer of health)

COVID-19 cases in Alberta involve a variant of concern, the province reported on Friday.Alberta Health announced a total of 1,521 cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed over the last 24 hours. An additional 674 cases of variants of concern were confirmed.

Alberta government has issued more restrictions to help stop the spread of COVID-19, which has the Lethbridge Housing Authority concerned it could be the final blow to some residents in lower income brackets.

pandemic public health restrictions, as it stands, “not a single region in the province would qualify for less stringent COVID restrictions.”The questions around a different way of imposing measures in the province came Thursday, a day after 17 members of the UCP caucus, most elected in rural areas, signed a letter expressing opposition to the newly re-imposed restrictions announced Tuesday.

coronavirus situation in Alberta on Thursday afternoon. That press briefing will be streamed live on this page at 3:30 p.m.On Wednesday, Alberta reported 1,351 new COVID-19 cases in the province, bringing the total active cases to 11,464.

COVID-19 vaccine and rare but serious blood clots. Now the EU drug regulator says the disorder should be listed as a side effect of the shot.

Alberta doctors say new restrictions ‘not enough’ to reduce spread of COVID-19 “The variants are already showing a pretty good effect in a school sports setting,” Talbot said. “There are already several quite large outbreaks in schools and athletic kind of events.

Alberta shuts down indoor dining, group fitness amid surging 3rd wave COVID-19, variant cases Premier Jason Kenney announced on Tuesday that certain restrictions were being reintroduced across the province by the end of the week to address rising COVID-19 case numbers and variants of concern.As of Wednesday, gyms were once again limited to just one-on-one fitness with trainers — with individual and group fitness banned again — and by Friday at noon, indoor dining at restaurants is not allowed.Kieth Carlson owns a restaurant called Roy’s Place in Claresholm and says he wasn’t surprised to see the province tighten up restrictions again.“We’ve seen the issues crop up,” he said.

Alberta returned to Step 1 of the plan for relaunching the economy due to a spike in COVID-19 cases, 15 United Conservative Party MLAs are publicly slamming the move.“We believe that yesterday’s announcement to move our province backwards, effectively abandoning the plan that Albertans had worked diligently over the past months to follow, is the wrong decision,” said a letter released Wednesday.The letter is mainly signed by UCP backbenchers, although house speaker Nathan Cooper and former minister Tracy Allard, who lost her position in cabinet after vacationing in Hawaii over Christmas, are also on the list. That scandal also saw the resignation of MLA Jason Stephan — who signed the letter — from the treasury board.

COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the province’s total of active cases to 11,464.Health officials have also identified 575 new cases of variants of concern, accounting for 43.2 per cent of currently active cases. Alberta doctors say new restrictions ‘not enough’ to reduce spread of COVID-19 A total of 333 people were being treated in hospitals across Alberta, with 79 of them being cared for in ICUs.One additional death was reported by Alberta Health on Wednesday: a man in his 60s living in the North zone.

Edmonton International Airport are being offered rapid COVID-19 testing as part of an eight-week pilot program meant to streamline results for workers who are exposed to travellers.Mobile medical services provider Numi Health Inc. partnered with Alberta Health Services to offer the pilotThe voluntary rapid tests take less than 30 minutes from swab to result and are available to asymptomatic employees who work with the public, such as airline staff and employees at restaurants and shops in the terminal.“People can return to work safely, or go to work safely and not hopefully worry too much about picking up the virus from co-workers at the airport,” Verburg said.