Alberta adds 461 COVID-19 cases, 8 deaths Sunday as active cases drop

COLOMBO (News 1st); Thousands of Sri Lankan health workers continued their strike action for the fifth consecutive day on Friday (11), despite a court issuing an order against a nurses trade union that is also taking part in the strike.Health workers in Sri Lanka have been staging demonstrations and strikes since November 2021 to draw attention to the issue of salary anomalies.Their major demands include the rectification of salary anomalies, higher allowances, and an increase in overtime rates.Supplementary and paramedical services, nursing services, and professionals from 16 health services including medical laboratory technologists, pharmacists, radiologists, public health inspectors, and family health officers are participating in the indefinite strike.Thousands of poor patients who visited government hospitals were turned away, as a result.A Sri Lankan court on Thursday (10) issued two enjoining orders preventing the strike action by the Government Nursing Officer’s Association from continuing.The Attorney General filed an action against the Government Nursing Officer’s Association and its president Saman Rathnapriya, seeking an enjoining order from the court to immediately suspend the trade union action of the said union.The Attorney General appraised the court of the present deplorable conditions in hospitals due to patient care being severely affected.District Court Judge of Colombo Aruna Aluthge issued two enjoining orders preventing the union from continuing the said trade union strike endangering the lives of the patients.As a result of the strike, over this week the activities at the Colombo General Hospital, Kandy General Hospital, 24 Teaching Hospitals, 26 General Hospitals, 46 Base Hospitals, 410 District

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Charli XCX has said that the criticism she’s received on social media lately has taken a toll on her mental health.The singer-songwriter, who releases her fifth album ‘Crash’ on March 18, issued a statement on Twitter yesterday (February 10) to explain that she’s temporarily stepping back from the platform due to the “negativity” surrounding her current campaign.“I’ve always had a pretty open dialogue with you guys and so I just wanna mention a few things that have been on my mind recently,” Charli began.“I have been feeling like I can’t do anything right at the moment.

COLOMBO (News 1st); The new University of Vavuniya was declared open by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday (11).The University of Vavuniya is the 17th State University in Sri Lanka and was established with effect from the 1st of August 2021 via an Extraordinary Gazette on the 8th of June 2021 that elevated the Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna, to a separate state university in Sri Lanka.The new state university was established for the purpose of providing, promoting, and developing higher education in the branches of learning of Business Studies, Applied Science, and Technology Studies.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of he World Health Organization (WHO), Buti Manamela, Deputy Dr Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology of South Africa, Dr Joe Phaahla, Minister of Health of South Africa and Meryame Kitir, Minister of Development Cooperation and Urban Policy of Belgium today visit a number of public and private sector partners that are collaborating to develop and build WHO’s global mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub in South Africa.

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Protester numbers outside New Zealand's parliament have increased as police scaled back efforts to clear anti-vaccine demonstrators involved in violent clashes a day earlier.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka’s Health Ministry has warned against the use of fake vaccination cards to avoid being vaccinated against COVID-19.Dr. Anwar Hamdani, attached to the Health Ministry said information on all those who have been vaccinated are with the Health Ministry, and it is a futile attempt to evade being vaccinated.“Getting vaccinated is a social responsibility and therefore everyone must get vaccinated against COVID-19,” he said.At the same time, the Deputy Director-General of Public Health Services Dr.

Ottawa police on Thursday provided an update on their ongoing enforcement measures against trucker protests demonstrating against COVID-19 vaccine mandates throughout parts of the city.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw is scheduled to provide another COVID-19 update for Albertans on Thursday afternoon.The chief medical officer of health is expected to speak at 3:30 p.m.

COVID-19: Hockey Alberta cancels minor hockey games for remainder of season On Jan. 26, Hockey Alberta released a statement saying it was looking for answers from the province by Feb.

Alberta’s Dr. Deena Hinshaw explains how outdated lists from AHS could have been the cause of some people receiving the COVID-19 vaccine before they were eligible for it.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw discusses allegations that a “small number of people… skipped the line, and received the (COVID-19) vaccine before they were eligible.”

Alberta chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw provides her daily COVID-19 update on Wednesday, announcing 259 new COVID-19 cases and 11 more deaths linked to the disease.

COVID-19 Wednesday afternoon.Dr. Deena Hinshaw is set to speak at 3:30 p.m.

Stage 1 of the plan launches on Feb. 8, and includes the return of gyms — but only for private training.“There’s not a lot of people in a recession that can afford one-on-one training, and that’s about one percent of the population,” said Corey Peebles, who owns several locations of Anytime Fitness in Alberta.“We’ve kind of isolated many of the people that need to be able to utilize it.”Dean Curran, a sociology professor at the University of Calgary who focuses on inequality, said that generally, the restriction cycle that has come with COVID-19 has been especially hard on the less fortunate in the province.“In in any market society, almost every single good is rationed based on cost,” Curran said.

tougher restrictions were announced at the end of November. Alberta’s new COVID-19 measures ban in-person dining, outdoor gatherings; retail to remain open Since those stricter measures were announced, enforcement officers have issued 225 per cent more tickets than between August and November of last year, the city said Tuesday.Between Aug.

Chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw explains where and when rapid testing is being used — including in rural Alberta, at shelters and long-term care settings — adding Alberta is exploring options for off-label asymptomatic testing, but cautions they are not as effective as PCR tests and only offer a snapshot in time.

Chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, said a majority of Alberta’s COVID-19 variant cases are from returning travellers, however eight cases in five different households have no links to travel.

Chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw said given how easily the COVID-19 variants spread, the entire household of anyone who tests positive must isolate for two weeks.

Alberta chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw updates the COVID-19 situation in the province on Tuesday, Feb.

Alberta chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw said Alberta confirming a large number of COVID-19 variants is due to an expansion of lab testing and the border testing pilot program.

AHS switched to only tracing cases in high-priority settings, such as continuing care facilities, healthcare facilities and schools; other positive cases were left to do their own tracing.The province also stopped tracing positive cases where who had already spent 10 days in isolation, as it focused on the most recent cases first.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]On Jan. 12, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr.

COVID-19 update Tuesday afternoon, including on reports of variants in a Calgary school.She is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m. and her remarks will be streamed in this story.On Monday evening, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health tweeted that a student in Calgary whose parent recently returned from travel “were determined to have been infectious with a variant case” while attending an unnamed school.“There’s been no evidence to date that anyone else has been infected.” Calgary student who tested positive for COVID-19 variant was at school while infectious: Hinshaw Hinshaw said she will provide an update on the case during Tuesday’s COVID-19 reporting.Dr.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are the focus of Alberta’s road map for gradually opening up more businesses and activities, but the province’s top doctor says a different criteria will factor into whether to slow down or tighten up. Alberta adds 461 COVID-19 cases, 8 deaths Sunday as active cases drop Hospitalizations are a lagging indicator.

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Alberta’s Dr. Deena Hinshaw discusses the COVID-19 variants in the province and what efforts are being done to prevent the spread.

Alberta chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw updates the COVID-19 situation in the province on Monday, including 355 new cases and 10 deaths related to the disease.

COVID-19 situation in the province on Monday afternoon.Dr. Deena Hinshaw is set to speak at her usual time of 3:30 p.m.

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COVID-19 within a month of feeling symptoms.Between Christmas and the New Year, Juanita Storms was sleeping a lot and running a fever, according to her mother, Virginia Sutherland.“So I said you better call the COVID(-19) line,” Sutherland remembered.The two live together, along with Storms’ 16-year-old son and her 12-year-old daughter.Under advice from health officials, Storms went to isolate in a hotel while she waited to be tested for the virus.It wasn’t long after she received the positive COVID-19 test that her health rapidly deteriorated.Storms was admitted to the hospital within a few days but even then, her family stayed optimistic.Her sister, Maggie Quinlan, remembers hearing the news and thinking her sister would get better

Alberta slams federal rollout of COVID-19 vaccine as positivity rate sits at 3.9% In March of last year, Lewis says Entos decided to change direction. The company had been working on cancer treatments and vaccines but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Entos focused on developing a vaccine.They had the people and the know-how.

‘Do we postpone again?’: Couples on planning their weddings in 2021 Kelsey Lacroix met her fiancé Jerome through mutual friends at work. She lived in Edmonton and he was in Calgary.“One day he saw my picture and said, ‘Who’s that?'” Lacroix said.

Alberta chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw updates the COVID-19 situation in the province on Friday. The province has identified 12 more cases of COVID-19 variants.

COVID-19 update from Dr. Deena Hinshaw Friday afternoon.The province’s chief medical officer of health is scheduled to speak at 2:30 p.m.

Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro says Ottawa has failed Albertans. The federal government has updated vaccine delivery expectations this quarter and they indicate fewer-than-expected vials of Pfizer vaccine will arrive — but Ottawa also says that doesn’t actually mean fewer doses.

Alberta chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw addressed organizers of the World’s Longest Hockey Game being granted an exemption from Alberta Health for the fundraising event, saying they reasonably demonstrated public health could be protected.

receiving hundreds of thousands fewer doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine than expected, Alberta’s health minister is calling the news a “failure” on the part of the federal government.“The federal government is failing Canadians,” Tyler Shandro said in a news release.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw responds to news that some health workers showing up to receive a COVID-19 vaccine were greeted with a sign saying “no vaccines today.”

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw updates the COVID-19 situation in the province on Wednesday. The province recorded 12 deaths associated to COVID-19 and 459 new cases of the disease.

Alberta’s Dr.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw spent part of her COVID-19 update on Wednesday discussing the continued strain on the health-care system, despite decreasing hospitalizations from COVID-19.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw says she and the province are working on framework to help Albertans understand what needs to be done to loosen COVID-19 restrictions in the province.