Dr. Deena Hinshaw will provide her first in-person COVID-19 update of the week Tuesday afternoon.The chief medical officer of health is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m.
Her news conference will be streamed live in this story post and on Corus Alberta radio stations and Facebook pages. Alberta health minister tests positive for COVID-19 as hospitalizations surpass 1,000 On Monday, Alberta Health reported there were 1,007 people receiving care for COVID-19 in hospital, with 94 of those people in the ICU.Over the weekend, 25 additional COVID-19 deaths were reported, including one in a child between the ages of five and nine.
According to the province, the child did not have any pre-existing conditions.The province reported 15,886 new, lab-confirmed cases over the weekend: 6,293 cases on Friday, 5,407 on Saturday and 4,186 on Sunday.As of Monday, there were 72,368 active confirmed cases.
Pfizer’s Paxlovid pill not a replacement for COVID-19 vaccine, officials say The province has changed PCR testing eligibility, so the active case number is higher.