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Alberta records 22 more COVID-19 deaths The pandemic response unit in the Kaye Edmonton Clinic was targeting Thursday to begin admitting patients, AHS said Tuesday.“The opening of the PRU is a temporary measure and is one of several initiatives that will ensure our healthcare system can meet the increased demand caused by COVID-19,” a statement from AHS said.“Patients moved to the PRU could be patients recovering from COVID-19 who are no longer infectious or patients with less complex healthcare needs than those being cared for in traditional inpatient spaces.”Thursday’s briefing also comes days after Health Minister Jason Copping announced Pfizer’s antiviral pill Paxlovid would be arriving in Alberta on Monday, but only 3200 courses of the treatment.

Canada has detected BA.2 cases. What we know about this Omicron subvariant And on Wednesday, Alberta Health confirmed it had detected three cases of the BA.2 Omicron sub-variant.Dubbed “stealth Omicron” for its ability to evade some types of detecting and sequencing, BA.2 is now the dominant strain in Denmark.

Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said “it must be more contagious” on Wednesday.The BA.2 sub-lineage of Omicron, which was first detected in November last year, was designated as a variant under investigation by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on Friday.–with files from Saba Aziz, Global News and Reuters.

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Omicron 75% less likely to cause death than Delta COVID-19 variant: South Korean data
Omicron coronavirus variant are nearly 75% less likely to develop serious illness or die than those who contract the Delta variant, real world data released on Monday by South Korea’s health authorities showed.A study by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) of some 67,200 infections confirmed since December showed the Omicron variant’s severity and death rates averaged 0.38% and 0.18%, respectively, compared with 1.4% and 0.7% for the Delta cases.The KDCA classed severe cases as people who were hospitalised in intensive care units. COVID cases exceed 400 million globally as Omicrons spreads Around 56% of 1,073 people who died over the past five weeks were either unvaccinated or had received only one dose, the study showed, with people aged 60 or older accounting for 94% of deaths.More than 86% of South Korea’s 52 million population have been double vaccinated and nearly 60% have received a booster shot.South Korea had kept cases and deaths relatively low thanks to widespread social distancing measures and aggressive testing and tracing.The Omicron variant has led to a surge in cases — daily new infections topped a record 100,000 last week — but authorities have pushed ahead with slightly easing social distancing rules amid the lower fatality rate and ahead of a presidential election next month.Contact tracing and mandatory isolation for vaccinated people was scrapped in favour of self diagnosis and at-home treatment to free up medical resources.
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