The day after a halved isolation requirement went into effect for vaccinated Albertans, Prime Minister Jason Kenney and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw will provide an update on the COVID-19 pandemic. 19 in the province.
That press conference is scheduled for 3:30 pm Tuesday and can be seen in this story.
Tuesday will be the first time in 2022 that they have addressed the media. According to a statement, the press conference will also address “ongoing work to protect public health.”
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Hinshaw last provided a public address on December 31, 2021.
Later that day, he also tweeted that there are “about 21K COVID-19 cases that we know of.”
According to the latest provincial data released on December 30, the test positivity rate was 30 percent that day. The province had the same positivity two days earlier.
The December 30 preliminary estimate of 4,000 new cases set a record for new cases in a single day during the pandemic.
Alberta changed the PCR testing guidelines before Christmas, making only those who work in a high-risk environment, such as continuing care or medical care, eligible for testing. Due to the change, the number of positive cases in the province is higher than the reported numbers.
The latest data on intensive care unit capacity and hospitalizations were from a week ago, at which point hospitalizations were trending up throughout the AHS area except the North area.
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