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.