Alberta Premier Jason Kenney confirmed 117 new cases of COVID-19 in the province. Much information was released from a large number of backlogged tests conducted by health officials. Kenney said Wednesday the backlog developed because of a shortage in reagents, an essential element in the testing. The province will be receiving new rapid testing kits within days.
Truck drivers put in many hours to provide essential products. It is important to keep operating the supply lines.
More information will be used to trace, control and contain positive Coronavirus Covid-19 cases.
Total Canadian cases:
Confirmed: 9,712
Deaths: 111
Recovered: 1,528
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March 31, 2020 Coronavirus means some Alberta hotels close; changes for those still open - globalnews.ca
March 31, 2020 7 health enforcement orders related to COVID-19 issued against Alberta businesses - calgary.ctvnews.ca
April 1, 2020 Coronavirus: Alberta increases food inspector capacity as demand for meat rises - globalnews.ca
March 31, 2020 Alberta man who died from COVID-19 remembered as a mentor and jokester - globalnews.ca
April 1, 2020 Alberta stores alter hours of operation for safety reasons during COVID-19 pandemic - globalnews.ca
April 1, 2020 Opposition grills Alberta government on ‘broken’ emergency isolation funding program - globalnews.ca
April 1, 2020 Some Alberta convicts move to house arrest to mitigate COVID-19 risk: official - globalnews.ca
March 31, 2020 Alberta government to introduce 3 bills amid COVID-19 pandemic - globalnews.ca
March 30, 2020 Alberta’s ‘energy war room’ sees budget cut by 90% amid coronavirus - globalnews.ca
April 1, 2020 Model predicts 250 Alberta patients will need intensive care at peak of COVID-19 pandemic - cbc.ca
March 31, 2020 Alberta education minister will not reverse decision on layoffs amid COVID-19 pandemic - globalnews.ca
March 31, 2020 Alberta landlord fears financial challenges as protections for renters kick in - globalnews.ca
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Alberta is Canada's 4th largest province by population. Alberta's GDP in 2018 was CDN$338.2 billion. Alberta has an estimated 1.4 billion cubic metres of unconventional oil resources in the bituminous oil sands. Alberta leads Canada as an oil producer. In 2018, Alberta's energy sector contributed over $71.5 billion to Canada's nominal gross domestic product.
Alberta has surpassed 1,000 cases of Coronavirus Covid-19. A total of 18 Albertans have now died from the virus. The City of Calgary is cancelling all public events until at least June 30. All Calgary playgrounds and skateparks are closed. People are encouraged to create greater distances between people.
ReplyDeleteBe careful! A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. The Coronavirus Covid-19 virus can infect humans, cats and dogs. There have been cases where humans infect their pets. However, there was no evidence of the virus passing from animals to humans.
Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1892 article describing a non-bacterial pathogen infecting tobacco plants, and the discovery of the tobacco mosaic virus by Martinus Beijerinck in 1898, about 5,000 virus species have been described in detail. The interesting study of viruses is known as virology, a subspeciality of microbiology.