COVID-19 “numbers continue to decline rapidly,” Premier Jason Kenney announced the province will move forward to Step 2 of its reopening plan come Tuesday, March 1.The announcement was made during the official opening ceremony of the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital in northwestern Alberta.Step 2 of the government’s plan to reopen includes:“We are in a position to safely move to Step 2 of our path back to normal and remove the vast majority of remaining public health measures in Alberta,” Kenney said.According to a government news release issued on Feb.

8, Step 3 will remove COVID-specific measures in continuing care and see isolation for positive cases become a recommendation rather than a requirement.That step would be taken “based on hospitalization rates continuing to trend downwards.”—More to come….

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