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Coronavirus: Alberta’s R value to be publicly posted starting Monday

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new restrictions announced will be the rate of the virus’s transmission, also known as the reproduction number or R value.The R value explains how many people a positive case will infect.

For example, if the R value is one, then one person will infect one other person, who infects one other person.An R number of two means one person infects two others who go on to infect two others each.

An R number of 0.5 means fewer people will become infected than the previous generation of cases.Kenney said Tuesday that the province’s R value must be below one by Dec.

15 for measures to be lifted; he said ideally the R value would be 0.8. Alberta enacts 2nd COVID-19 state of public health emergency.

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