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City officials to provide Wednesday update on Edmonton’s COVID-19 response

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Mayor Don Iveson and interim city manager Adam Laughlin are set to give an update Wednesday afternoon on Edmonton’s response to COVID-19.

They will speak following the weekly city council emergency advisory committee meeting, which is set to begin at 1:30 p.m. The mayor and manager’s comments will be live streamed in this story following that meeting. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] The meeting will include a vote on extending the state of local emergency, which has to be renewed on a weekly basis.

The agenda for the committee also includes a private session focused on the job situation for city employees. At the end of March, over 2,000 city employees were given temporary layoff notices.

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