Alberta Health Services forms COVID-19 variant contact tracing team as cases increase to 57

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

Prince Charles getting Covid again should be "ringing royal alarm bells," according to an expert who warns of some "regal whiplash". The 73-year-old is set to snatch an almost 200-year record by becoming the oldest person to be crowned monarch.

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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.

Letter to @GoAHealth Serious Concerns Regarding Relaxation of Current Restrictions-thank you Albertans-higher transmissible & fatal variants-lack of vaccine supply-premature to relax restrictions-issues with 4 stages-enforcing restrictionshttps://t.co/FVTIVdsSzX pic.twitter.com/GyQj0vVOwT— #savePFSP Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association (@EZMSA2) February 4, 2021Stage 1 of Alberta’s plan to begin easing restrictions in an effort to further reopen both the economy and society during the pandemic is tentatively set to begin on Feb. 8.

COVID-19 outbreak involving a variant of concern was in the Edmonton zone.Earlier this week, Dr. Deena Hinshaw said four variant cases were linked to the Alberta daycare outbreak.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw says the timeframe for identifying positive cases of COVID-19 variants will improve, after it took weeks to notify of a variant case in an Alberta school.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw updates the COVID-19 situation in the province on Thursday.

Alberta’s top doctor Dr. Deena Hinshaw updates the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Alberta. Hinshaw says from more than 112,000 doses, there have been 53 adverse events reported.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw warns seniors that there are reportedly phone calls going around saying patients can receive a COVID-19 vaccine for a fee.

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.

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.

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 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.

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Alberta Health Services and other law enforcement officials to take action.

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.

COVID-19 in Alberta on Sunday, as the province added an additional 461 cases and reported eight new deaths.The positive cases Sunday came from 8,946 tests, giving a positivity rate of 5.3 per cent.There were 478 new recoveries from the disease Sunday.Here is a summary of today’s #COVID19AB numbers: Over the last 24 hours we have identified 461 new cases and completed 8,946 tests. Our positivity rate is 5.3%.

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 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.

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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.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw said during her provincial update on COVID-19 Tuesday that the province continues to assess current health restrictions and that continued non-compliance will lead to repercussions.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw says the province is looking at creating a framework for the professional film industry and crews from out of province during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alberta’s top doctor, Deena Hinshaw, began her daily COVID-19 update on Tuesday by asking Albertans to be careful about the accuracy of the information they share on COVID-19 to help stop the spread of misinformation during the pandemic.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in the province, including 366 new cases and 14 deaths associated to the disease.