Alberta confirms 1,521 cases of COVID-19 on Friday, 674 new variant cases

COVID on Friday, with 435 in intensive care units as figures continue to trend downwards.This is down by 68 hospitalizations and a decrease of 10 in ICUs since the previous day. Last Friday, there were 2,634 hospitalizations with 517 in ICU.The province recently began distinguishing between those who were admitted to hospital directly because of COVID, and those who were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for the virus.Of the 1,829 people in hospital with COVID-19, 54 per cent of them were admitted because of the virus, while 46 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID-19.Of the 435 people in ICUs with the virus, around 80 per cent were admitted because of COVID, while around 20 per cent were admitted for other reasons.

Mumbai, taking the cumulative tally to 10,53,413, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday. 

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Wells Fargo continues to make disconcerting claims about Wendy Williams’ health.

Kate Middleton is giving viewers a look into how she reads her bedtime stories to her three children — Prince George, 8, Princess Charlotte, 6, and Prince Louis, 3.The 40-year-old Duchess of Cambridge took part in a special on-camera reading of the children's book,, on the BBC's show. The wife of Prince William participated in the reading as part of Children's Mental Health Week. On Friday, released a clip from the episode, showing Kate signing off. In the video, the duchess is sitting on a blanket in a white printed turtleneck sweater and jeans as a crackling fire goes next to her. «Wow, what an encouraging tale,» she says.

Toys of the Beijing 2022 mascot, panda Bing Dwen Dwen, are seen during a flower ceremony fat the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. (Photo by Sergei BobylevTASS via Getty Images) Police are punishing Chinese traders for cashing in by reselling scarce dolls of Olympics mascot Bing Dwen Dwen at up to 10 times retail price.Buyers stood in line overnight in freezing weather and emptied store shelves after the Winter Games opened Feb.

Hillary Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state, speaks virtually during the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, on Friday, Nov.

In Ipsos polling exclusive to Global News, nearly half of Canadians say while they may not agree with everything that is being said, protesters’ frustration is legitimate and worthy of sympathy. A slim majority think the opposite.

The trucker convoy protest movement against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions that has paralyzed the Canadian capital and spilled over to key Canada-U.S. border crossings has the sympathy of many Canadians, according to a new poll.

Wordle game displayed on a phone screen and The New York Times logo displayed in the background are seen in this illustration photo. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NEW YORK - Puzzle fans looking for their fix of gray, yellow and (hopefully) green squares are finding that Wordle has moved, a few weeks after its purchase by the New York Times.Users logging on Thursday and Friday are beginning to be redirected from the familiar plain white website and instead winding up on a similar page hosted by the Times.

DETROIT - The truck blockade by Canadians protesting the country’s COVID-19 restrictions is tightening the screws on the auto industry, forcing Ford, Toyota and General Motors to shut down plants or otherwise curtail production on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.The bumper-to-bumper demonstration entered its fourth day Thursday at the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, disrupting the flow of auto parts and other products back and forth across the border.The bridge is the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing, carrying 25% of all trade between the two countries.RELATED: 'I understand why, but it makes it harder on us': Canadian trucker talks lost time, moneyFord said its Windsor, Ontario, engine plant reopened Thursday after being shut down on Wednesday because of a lack of parts. But the factory and the company’s assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto, are operating at reduced capacity, the automaker said."This interruption on the Detroit-Windsor bridge hurts customers, auto workers, suppliers, communities and companies on both sides of the border," Ford said in a statement.

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SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images) SpaceX’s Elon Musk said Thursday that the first orbital flight of his towering Starship — the world's most powerful rocket ever built — could come in another month or two.While he anticipates failures, he’s confident Starship will reach orbit by the end of this year.Musk provided his first major Starship update in more than two years while standing alongside the 390-foot (119-meter) rocket at SpaceX's Texas spaceport.

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at Germanna Community College in Culpeper, Virginia, on Feb. 10, 2022.

The University of Regina Cougars Women’s Hockey team picked up two key victories last weekend against the Manitoba Bisons, thanks in no small part to the play of winger Lilla Carpenter-Boesch.

Maharashtra in the last 24 hours, the Hindustan Times reported on Friday.

Dustin Lynch’s album "Blue in the Sky" has finally dropped. The country star announced the surprise follow-up to "Tullahoma" in a tweet on Jan. 19 – about a year after releasing the project that included a duo of No.

Two fake companies that fraudulently took £180,000 from Covid-19 financial assistance schemes have been shut down.

Check here all that WHO said on long COVID. Live Q&A on #COVID19 and Omicron sub-variant BA.2 with Dr @mvankerkhove and @DrAbdiMahamud. #AskWHO https://t.co/NVQMa8HHk7

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Barbara Corbo, a former Mercy Career & Technical High School teacher, was accused of engaging in "sexual contact" with a student.  PHILADELPHIA - A former Philadelphia teacher has been charged after being accused of sexually assaulting a student, according to police. On Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, Philadelphia police arrested 30-year-old Barbara Corbo on the 800 block of Kelly Drive in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Corbo taught at Mercy Career & Technical High School in Philadelphia.

Covid lockdown was introduced, which means by now most of us are used to testing ourselves to see if we have been infected with the virus.Many people may now associate the phrase ‘positive result’ with a confirmed case of the infectious virus that has caused the pandemic.But, that was not always the case.This was clear when a woman messaged a friend with a picture of her pregnancy test - which gave a positive result.Having snapped a photo of the white stick portraying two red lines, the women wrote “positive” with a neutral face emoji.However, there was a bit of a modern day mix-up.Just like how lateral flow tests show two red lines for a positive result, the friend thought they tested for Covid - not for being pregnant.The confused friend replied: “Damn, I hope you feel better.”Along with a prayer emoji, they added: “Quarantine.”Stunned at the response, the pregnant woman slammed: “Are you stupid?”A screenshot of the text was posted to Facebook by user Amber Lee Clark which has now racked up thousands of likes and 33,000 shares.People were left in stitches at the confusion so tagged their mates with laughing emojis whilst they poked fun at the mix-up.One person chuckled: “I hope she takes all the necessary precautions that the CDC has lined out. Don’t need that s*** spreading”Another added: “Name your kid Covid.”Whilst a third user related: “Remember when I sent you my Covid results and you thought I was pregnant?”Someone else shared: “I laughed too hard at this.” Get all the biggest Lifestyle news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the free Daily Star Hot Topics newsletter

Patty Hajdu says the number of COVID-19 infections in First Nations communities has begun to decline, bringing hope that the worst of the Omicron wave has passed.Hajdu says she understands why Indigenous leaders are sounding an alarm that progress could be lost in regions where provincial governments are rapidly moving to lift public health orders.“Indigenous leaders obviously are concerned,” Hajdu said during a news conference Thursday. High anxiety levels expected in Canadians wary of COVID restrictions lifting - experts Daily active case counts in Indigenous communities have declined 13.2 per cent from last week.

East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow MP, Dr Lisa Cameron, attended a drop in event in the Houses of Parliament to mark Children’s Mental Health Week 2022.

COVID-19 update from Dr. Deena Hinshaw on Tuesday afternoon.The province’s chief medical officer of health is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m.

COVID-19 pandemic.Kenney promised more aid last week after his government introduced a new round of restrictions to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. Alberta shuts down indoor dining, group fitness amid surging 3rd wave COVID-19, variant cases Retailers are limited to 15 per cent customer capacity and restaurants can only offer takeout or curbside service, although patios remain open.The Opposition NDP says Kenney’s government has failed for a year to properly manage economic supports, saying the money is always too little, too late.

COVID-19 pandemic.The spring edition of Downtown Dining Week kicks off Tuesday and runs until April 25. Downtown Dining Week in Edmonton aims for busy closing weekend The event comes amid public health restrictions that ban indoor dining across Alberta.

Jason Kenney is scheduled to provide Albertans with an update on the province’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout Monday morning.The premier is scheduled to speak about the progress of Alberta’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution at 11 a.m. MT.

COVID-19: Crowd gathers outside GraceLife Church west of Edmonton Sunday to protest closure “A lot of nation members have been showing up.

COVID-19 cases and one more death connected to the virus on Sunday.The death was a woman in her 70s in the Edmonton zone who had comorbidities. Alberta’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout expands to front-line health-care workers on Monday An additional 942 variant of concern cases were reported Sunday, with 50.5 per cent of active cases in Alberta now being VOCs.The province has 14,293 active cases, 144,596 recoveries and 2,013 deaths.As of Sunday, the Calgary zone has 6,600 active cases, the Edmonton zone has 3,524, the North zone has 1,885, the Central zone has 1,222, the South zone has 942 and 120 cases in unknown zones.

Positive COVID-19 tests lead to postponed matches at World Men’s Curling Championship in Calgary: officials The positive tests did not come from the six teams that qualified for the playoffs, and those who tested positive did not have symptoms, according to Curling Canada.All playoff teams nevertheless underwent testing Saturday morning. Games were on hold until test results cleared athletes to get back on the ice.The World Curling Federation has not identified the number of cases, saying those involved were isolating and contact tracing was underway.A playoff game between the United States and Switzerland, and semifinal games involving Sweden, Russia and Scotland were on Saturday’s schedule.

Alberta’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout expands to front-line health-care workers on Monday The deaths include:The province now has 13,687 active cases, 144,020 recoveries and 2,012 deaths.As of Saturday, the Calgary zone has 6,361 active cases, the Edmonton zone has 3,320, the North zone has 1,815, the Central zone has 1,124 and the South zone has 955. There are 112 cases in unknown zones.

COVID-19 vaccine rollout is expanding to include front-line health-care workers in Phase 2C.The province said more than 240,000 eligible health-care workers can start booking vaccine appointments on Monday, April 12.“As part of Phase 2C of Alberta’s vaccine rollout, nurses, doctors, dentists and any health-care workers in patient care facilities or providing direct patient care in the community will receive the vaccine,” the province said in a news release.

#YYC #CurlingBubble #Curling. pic.twitter.com/8UrKVpRGQf— Moses Woldu (@MosesWoldu) April 10, 2021The United States and Switzerland had been scheduled to play in a playoff matchup Saturday morning.The tournament is being held at Calgary’s Markin MacPhail Centre and sees competitors enter the so-called “bubble” in an effort to keep COVID-19 out of the event.“All teams that made the playoffs will undergo testing on Saturday morning, and until the results are clear and it’s known that the players and event staff are safe, no further games will be played,” Curling Canada said.

COVID-19 outbreak involving at least 56 cases at Lakeland College’s campus in Vermilion, Alta., according to the post-secondary institution’s president.In an update posted on the school’s website on Friday, Alice Wainwright-Stewart wrote that 45 of the cases are now confirmed to involve the B.1.1.7 variant, which was first discovered in the U.K.She said 52 cases involve students while four involve staff.“The investigation is in the early stages, however, at this time AHS (Alberta Health Services) has shared there is evidence that these cases have spread as a result of isolated off-campus social gatherings, which are not in compliance with provincial public health guidance from the chief medical officer of health.”Wainwright-Stewart said the

COVID-19 restrictions that took effect on Friday.Alberta Health Services told Global News that staff visited the Whistle Stop Café on Friday, “in response to public claims by the operator that they would not be complying with COVID-19 restrictions.”The café is in Mirror, Alta., which is located about 160 kilometres south of Edmonton, near Lacombe.As Alberta grapples with its highest number of new COVID-19 cases so far in 2021, a spike driven by new and more easily spread variants of the novel coronavirus, the provincial government announced earlier this week it would reintroduce some public health measures, including the prohibition of dine-in service at restaurants.“As a result of non-compliance with CMOH (chief medical officer of health)

Alberta government has issued more restrictions to help stop the spread of COVID-19, which has the Lethbridge Housing Authority concerned it could be the final blow to some residents in lower income brackets.

pandemic public health restrictions, as it stands, “not a single region in the province would qualify for less stringent COVID restrictions.”The questions around a different way of imposing measures in the province came Thursday, a day after 17 members of the UCP caucus, most elected in rural areas, signed a letter expressing opposition to the newly re-imposed restrictions announced Tuesday.

coronavirus situation in Alberta on Thursday afternoon. That press briefing will be streamed live on this page at 3:30 p.m.On Wednesday, Alberta reported 1,351 new COVID-19 cases in the province, bringing the total active cases to 11,464.

COVID-19 vaccine and rare but serious blood clots. Now the EU drug regulator says the disorder should be listed as a side effect of the shot.

Alberta doctors say new restrictions ‘not enough’ to reduce spread of COVID-19 “The variants are already showing a pretty good effect in a school sports setting,” Talbot said. “There are already several quite large outbreaks in schools and athletic kind of events.

Alberta shuts down indoor dining, group fitness amid surging 3rd wave COVID-19, variant cases Premier Jason Kenney announced on Tuesday that certain restrictions were being reintroduced across the province by the end of the week to address rising COVID-19 case numbers and variants of concern.As of Wednesday, gyms were once again limited to just one-on-one fitness with trainers — with individual and group fitness banned again — and by Friday at noon, indoor dining at restaurants is not allowed.Kieth Carlson owns a restaurant called Roy’s Place in Claresholm and says he wasn’t surprised to see the province tighten up restrictions again.“We’ve seen the issues crop up,” he said.

Alberta returned to Step 1 of the plan for relaunching the economy due to a spike in COVID-19 cases, 15 United Conservative Party MLAs are publicly slamming the move.“We believe that yesterday’s announcement to move our province backwards, effectively abandoning the plan that Albertans had worked diligently over the past months to follow, is the wrong decision,” said a letter released Wednesday.The letter is mainly signed by UCP backbenchers, although house speaker Nathan Cooper and former minister Tracy Allard, who lost her position in cabinet after vacationing in Hawaii over Christmas, are also on the list. That scandal also saw the resignation of MLA Jason Stephan — who signed the letter — from the treasury board.

COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the province’s total of active cases to 11,464.Health officials have also identified 575 new cases of variants of concern, accounting for 43.2 per cent of currently active cases. Alberta doctors say new restrictions ‘not enough’ to reduce spread of COVID-19 A total of 333 people were being treated in hospitals across Alberta, with 79 of them being cared for in ICUs.One additional death was reported by Alberta Health on Wednesday: a man in his 60s living in the North zone.

Edmonton International Airport are being offered rapid COVID-19 testing as part of an eight-week pilot program meant to streamline results for workers who are exposed to travellers.Mobile medical services provider Numi Health Inc. partnered with Alberta Health Services to offer the pilotThe voluntary rapid tests take less than 30 minutes from swab to result and are available to asymptomatic employees who work with the public, such as airline staff and employees at restaurants and shops in the terminal.“People can return to work safely, or go to work safely and not hopefully worry too much about picking up the virus from co-workers at the airport,” Verburg said.

Alberta investigating 2 separate COVID-19 outbreaks involving P.1 variants Albertans first learned of a P.1 variant outbreak through a tweet from Alberta’s chief medical officer of health on Saturday.Dr.

COVID-19 case numbers in Alberta climb and variants of concern continue to spread, many people are wondering if the province is on the cusp of announcing tighter health restrictions.Alberta’s emergency management cabinet committee was originally scheduled to meet on Wednesday, but the meeting has since been moved up to Tuesday morning.This, as Alberta Health announced Monday that 887 new COVID-19 cases had been identified in the last 24 hours, including 432 variants of concern. Alberta COVID-19 positivity rises to 9.9% as NDP pushes for stronger restrictions Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, Dr.