COVID-19 Tuesday afternoon, amid a surge in Omicron cases.Jason Kenney, Jason Copping and Dr. Deena Hinshaw are scheduled to provide the update at 3:30 p.m.
Global News will live stream the media availability in this post.The update comes following a spike in Omicron cases identified in Alberta over the weekend.
Alberta sees spike in Omicron cases of COVID-19 as AHS prepares health-care system for surge On Monday, Alberta reported 1,925 new cases of COVID-19 from the previous three days.
During that timeframe, the province said 872 cases were the Omicron variant of concern.As of Monday afternoon, Alberta had identified 1,045 cases of Omicron.In total, Alberta had 5,652 active cases of COVID-19 in the province as of Monday afternoon.