COVID-19 pandemic.Late November, Premier Jason Kenney said the R value would be used to determine if restrictions are lifted on Dec.
15. At the time, he said he would like to see the R value below one, ideally at 0.8. Alberta may receive early COVID-19 vaccines as province confirms additional 1,735 cases While Alberta Health had previously been providing Global News with the R value when asked, it stopped doing so after Nov.
24, when new restrictions were announced.“We’ll be discussing that at our next meeting of the cabinet COVID committee about what metrics to release and when to release them,” Kenney said on Dec.
2 when Global News asked why the R value was not being publicly released.The R value describes how the virus spreads within.