new restrictions on Tuesday, moving students online and closing patios among other measures amid a spike in COVID-19 cases. Schools go online as Alberta adds more COVID-19 restrictions for 3 weeks Dr.
Stephanie Smith, an infectious disease physician at the University of Alberta Hospital, believes these restrictions — outlined below — are necessary and will help bring the case count down.“We’ve continued week after week to see this increase in numbers in the community and in the hospital,” she said.“I think we do need to somehow shut it down.
While the vaccines are certainly going to help us, we just don’t have enough of the population vaccinated right now to rely on that alone, so I think a hopefully short-lived circuit-breaking lockdown.