COVID-19 positives with 1,879 additional cases identified Saturday, a Calgary doctor and medical school professor says the provincial health system is being stretched thin and more measures are needed — immediately.“We’re entering a very scary phase of this wave of the pandemic, and we don’t unfortunately see that the measures that have been implemented are going to make enough of a shift in that,” Dr.
Christine Gibson, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Calgary, said Saturday.Another six people have died, bringing the provincial fatality number to 596.Of those deaths, the majority were in Edmonton zone, with a man in his 90s linked to the Grey Nuns Community Hospital outbreak, a woman and a man in their 70s, neither linked.