In the span of a few days, Alberta has reported 44 additional deaths from COVID-19. And while the province continues to push vaccination, front-line health professionals say unless Alberta takes immediate action to slow the spread of COVID-19, more people will die.

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UK PM Johnson to set out Covid-19 booster strategy under winter plan

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Nicki Minaj breaks silence over Met Gala absence and 'snubs' covid jab requirement

showbiz gossip straight to your inbox with the Daily Star's FREE newsletterNicki Minaj reveals she isn't attending the Met Gala 2021 event because of the covid vaccine requirement for guests.The singer took to Twitter to explain her absence to fans, saying: "If I vaccinated it won't [be] for the Met".The Met Gala saw the best and biggest celebrities walk the red carpet and showcase their incredible gowns in the most iconic fashion event of the year.The theme of the event, which was postponed from May due to the pandemic, is In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, to celebrate American fashion and independence.Nicki wrote on social media: "They want you to get vaccinated for the Met. if I get vaccinated it won’t for the Met.

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Calgary post-secondary students welcome ‘really smart’ vaccination requirement

Nine of Alberta’s biggest post-secondary institutions are making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory on campus. As Gil Tucker reports, students Global News talked to on Monday said it’s a step that makes them feel safer.

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Hamilton General’s cardiac unit cancelled surgeries amid COVID cases occupying ICUs

COVID-19 patients currently at that hospital, his unit had to cancel all cardiac surgeries last Friday due to an unavailability of intensive care (ICU) resources.Dr. Craig Ainsworth, director of the cardiac care unit at the Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) hospital, says the unfortunate part of the circumstance is that the occupancy likely could have been avoided if the patients had got a pair of COVID vaccine shots.“In the last six weeks in our ICU, we’ve had 100 per cent of our admissions having been unvaccinated people,” Ainsworth told Global News.

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COVID-19: Anti-vaccine protesters gather outside Toronto General Hospital

Protesters gathered outside Toronto General Hospital to protest COVID-19 vaccines. It was one of several expected protests across the country. Caryn Lieberman reports.

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City of Regina delays date for requiring vaccination at facilities by 2 months

the city announced the September 20 target in late August, they cited provincial government plans to debut a new proof of vaccination system involving a smartphone-ready QR code that week.But a report headed to city council Wednesday show’s the city manager’s office has revised the targeted start date to November 15 to “procure and implement the needed devices to ensure a positive experience for the public when accessing City facilities”.“Technical details related to both the QR code and the scanning app have yet to be released by the Government of Saskatchewan,” the city manager’s report reads.“The City will require a reasonable amount of time after receiving the technical details to ensure we have completed the appropriate due diligence.”

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Toronto Blue Jays fans weigh in on new COVID-19 vaccine policy

The Toronto Blue Jays will now be requiring fans to prove they’re fully immunized in order to get inside the ballpark. If they’re not, they’ll be required to present a negative COVID-19 test result.

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Rolling Stones miss drummer bandmate Charlie Watts’ funeral due to Covid restrictions

THE funeral of Rolling Stone Charlie Watts took place last week — without his bandmates present. Sadly, Sir Mick Jagger, 78 Keith Richards, 77, and Ronnie Wood, 74, were not able to attend the small private ceremony in Devon.

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Small group of nurses protests against mandatory vaccines outside Montreal hospital

COVID-19: Quebec will suspend unvaccinated health workers without pay as of Oct. 15 Monday’s vigil was briefly interrupted by a small group of anti-vaxxers who came to show their support for the nurses.Organizers, however, were quick to distance themselves from the protesters, specifying the group is not against the COVID-19 vaccine but rather supports medical freedom.“I am for informed consent, I am for freedom of choice,” German said.

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Manitoba yet to post data on COVID-19 cases in schools

COVID-19 cases in schools has yet to come back from summer vacation.Schools started welcoming students back Sept. 8, but as of Monday an online dashboard listing cases among school staff and school-aged children remained “on pause.” All Manitoba students to head back to classrooms in September Manitoba’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr.

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Saskatchewan government reactivates emergency labour mobility in health system

Saskatchewan government.Government officials said this was done to once again provide for “health system labour mobility” through greater flexibility in scheduling and redirecting workers to areas experiencing capacity pressures and in the use of supplementary resources.The provisions are effective immediately, according to a press release.

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Third COVID shot needed for severely immunocompromised people, B.C. officials say

COVID-19 vaccine.This group of people is considered severely immunocompromised, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Monday.“As a result of their medical condition, people who are immune-compromised have a reduced capacity to respond effectively to any vaccine,” she said.“To these people, a third dose is needed to get that protection that the rest of us get from the regular dose schedule.”There are 15,000 people eligible to receive a third dose.

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Nicki Minaj Reveals She Won’t Attend Met Gala This Year Because Of COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement

Nicki Minaj is explaining why she won’t be in attendance at this year’s Met Gala.

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Nicki Minaj has Covid-19: Forced to miss MTV VMAs but rails against Met Gala's vaccination rule

Nicki Minaj was forced to skip two high-profile events after first catching Covid while prepping for Sunday's VMAs and then failing to get vaccinated for the Met Gala on Monday.The rapper, 38, detailed her health decisions on Twitter Monday afternoon, telling fans how she contracted Covid while also revealing how she's still 'doing research' about the vaccine.The mother-of-one also knocked Met organizers over their inoculation requirements, saying: 'IfI get vaccinated it won't be for the Met.'But she later softened her stance, saying she'd likely get the shot once it's required for her to travel and tour. Pressing pause: Nicki Minaj revealed that she came down with Covid on Twitter Monday, causing her to skip Sunday's VMAs.

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COVID-19 update 14 September 2021

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield will update the media today at 1pm.

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Boris Johnson claims Covid winter plan will 'protect gains we have made'

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COVID-19: Rapid testing begins in some Montreal-area schools

Starting Monday, 72 schools in the Greater Montreal region began rapid testing for COVID-19 as cases begin to climb in schools across the province.

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‘Mindless mobs’: London, Ont. mayor condemns hospital protests during COVID-19 briefing

COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates, describing them on Monday as “mindless mobs” who are harassing health-care workers.“It’s an absolutely disgraceful development and one I condemn in the strongest possible terms.

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Jeff Bridges' lymphoma in remission, says COVID bout made cancer fight 'look like a piece of cake'

Jeff Bridges is providing his fans with an update after he was not only diagnosed with lymphoma last October but simultaneously endured a serious bout with coronavirus as well. The "Bad Times at the El Royale" star, 71, wrote on his website that his cancer is now in remission and a 9-inch by 12-inch mass has "shrunk down to the size of a marble." While Bridges told fans he is "feeling better" and his battle with COVID-19 – which he and wife Susan both contracted in January – is "in the rearview mirror," he admitted that it did a pretty good number on him.

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More than 800 Albertans now hospitalized with COVID-19 as 4,740 new cases identified since Friday

COVID-19 in Alberta.Alberta Health data released Monday afternoon shows there are 803 people being treated for the disease in hospital. That’s a jump from 686 COVID-19 patients in hospital as of Friday afternoon.Of those in hospital, 198 are in intensive care — a jump from 169 COVID-19 patients in intensive care on Friday.“AHS continues to do all it can to ensure we have enough ICU capacity to meet patient demand, including opening additional spaces and redeploying staff,” Alberta Health Services said in a statement Monday.

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Nicki Minaj Skips Met Gala After Contracting COVID: I Couldn’t ‘Hold My Baby’

The “Queen of Rap” sadly won’t be attending the 2021 Met Gala. Nicki Minaj, 38, announced via Twitter on Monday (Sept. 13) that she contracted COVID-19 and won’t be attending this year’s star-studded event in New York. Nicki admitted that she was not vaccinated against the virus, and explained to her followers that the infection was also the reason she skipped out on the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday. “I was prepping for vmas then i shot a video & guess who got COVID?” she wrote.

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Jeff Bridges Says Battling COVID-19 Made His Cancer Fight 'Look Like a Piece of Cake'

Jeff Bridges is sharing an update about his health.

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74 more COVID-19 cases confirmed since Friday in Simcoe Muskoka

COVID-19 variant on Monday, bringing that total to 5,743, including 205 cases that are active.

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Breakthrough COVID-19 affected 19% of residents at a nursing home

A COVID-19 outbreak in a French nursing home—where 95% of residents but only a third of healthcare workers were fully vaccinated— infected nearly a quarter of residents and 12% of staff, finds a study today in JAMA Network Open.

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Global experts pan wider use of COVID vaccine booster dose

An international group of vaccine experts, including two former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials, said today that scientific evidence doesn't yet support the broader rollout of COVID-19 boosters.

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Biden to talk COVID-19, climate change in first Quad Leaders Summit Sept. 24

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden will meet with leaders from Australia, India and Japan in his first-ever Quad Leaders Summit on September 24, according to the White House.Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan are expected to take part in the meeting.

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Pharmacists fear busy flu season while COVID-19 cases rise

COVID-19 restrictions.Now that restrictions are lifting, there are concerns about the upcoming flu season.Health officials attributed the drop in cases a year ago to limited social activities, mask-wearing, remote work and school and physical distancing measures.Paul Bowman, the owner and operator of Bowman’s Pharmasave pharmacy in Fredericton, said it’s still early, but the warning signs are there for a challenging flu season. Health officials warn of cold and flu return when masks come off “With schools going back, we’re already seeing cough, cold, earaches, sniffles that I didn’t see last year,” Bowman said.

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Saskatchewan sets new daily record for COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 cases was set in Saskatchewan.The province reported 449 new cases on Monday, the highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic. The previous daily high was 441 on Nov.

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Days after schools open, COVID-19 outbreaks force many across Canada to close

COVID-19 outbreaks have closed schools across Canada – prompting concerns about how the rest of the school year will proceed.“We do know, obviously, that there is a lot of spread going on to schools, and that’s a concern,” said Dr. Stephen Freedman, a professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at the University of Calgary, who also works at the Alberta Children’s Hospital.“We’re only at the beginning of September and it is going to get much more challenging as the number of cases rise,” he said.On Sunday, Prince Edward Island’s chief health officer, Dr.

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Jeff Bridges Reveals His 'Cancer Is In Remission' -- AND He Battled COVID-19 While Undergoing Chemotherapy!

Wow… What a tough guy.

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COVID cases drop a bit in US as country torn over vaccines, masks

The summer surge of COVID-19 cases, which began shortly after the Fourth of July and was instigated by the highly transmissible Delta (B1617.2) variant, is showing signs of waning.

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Protests set to take place in front of hospitals across country including Toronto

The organization called Canadian Frontline Nurses sent notices of “silent vigils” to take place Monday out front of hospitals in all ten provinces in protest of mandated vaccine cards to help curb the spread of COVID-19.

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Manitoba reports 41 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths since Friday

COVID-19 have died since last week and 41 more people have been infected with the virus.The latest victims include a woman in her 60s from the Winnipeg Health region linked to the Delta variant and two women in their 70s from the Interlake-Eastern Health region.

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Anti-vax activist dies of COVID-19 amid QAnon demands for ivermectin

anti-vax conspiracy theorist has died of COVID-19 complications in Chicago, after QAnon believers spent weeks trying to bully the hospital into giving her the unproven drug ivermectin.Veronica Wolski, 64, died early Monday of pneumonia related to COVID-19, the Amita Resurrection Medical Center told Forbes.Wolski was a popular far-right activist who frequently promoted her conspiracy theories through bridge protests in the city, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.She opposed coronavirus safety measures and was a devoted supporter of QAnon, the online fantasy that imagines a satanic cabal of cannibalistic pedophiles within the highest levels of Hollywood and the U.S. government.

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What does the science say about children’s mental health and the Covid vaccine?

not worth the risk.However, after 10 days of mulling over the wider advantages to education and mental health, the chief medical officers of the four nations decided to approve a rollout.“What we’re not trying to do is say to children, ‘You must, must, must, must, must’,” said Prof Whitty.“What we’re saying is we think, on balance, the benefits both at an individual level, and in terms of wider indirect benefits to education and through that to public health are in favour.”Prof Whitty insisted that it would not be a “silver bullet”, but said it was a “potentially useful tool” to help reduce the health impacts that come through educational disruption.“The disruption in education that has happened in the last period since March 2020 has been

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9 Alberta post-secondary institutions to require proof of COVID-19 vaccine to attend campus

COVID-19 protocols by requiring everyone attending campus to be fully vaccinated against the disease.In a joint news release Monday morning, the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge, MacEwan University, Medicine Hat College, Mount Royal University, NAIT, SAIT and NorQuest College announced they will introduce a vaccination mandate.“Vaccinations are the safest and most effective way to protect communities from COVID-19’s damaging effects,” read the joint news release.

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Alberta tourism towns bracing for busy winter with fewer temporary foreign workers

Visitors to see big changes on Banff’s Bear Street after major construction work during pandemic As a hectic summer season comes to a close, Prevost is one of many business operators in destinations like Banff and Whistler, B.C., who are bracing for a busier winter season as international visitors return to Canada amid an ongoing staff shortage.“Even pre-pandemic, the hospitality sector was always difficult to staff.

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Waterloo Public Health reports 24 more COVID cases as daily case count continues to rise

Waterloo Region enacts mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy for staff, volunteers This brings the rolling seven-day average number of new cases in the area up to 24. That number stood at 19, a month ago.In addition, another 21 people were also cleared of the virus, lifting the total number of resolved cases to 18,774.No new COVID-19-related deaths were reported Monday, although one was reported on Sunday, which lifted the death toll in the area to 292, including three victims this month.The area is back to 202 active COVID-19 cases, a number which stood at 147 on Aug.

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Nurse protest set to take place outside Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton

An organization calling itself Canadian Frontline Nurses planned to hold demonstrations across Canada on Monday in protest of COVID-19 public health measures, including at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. Kim Smith joined the noon news live from outside the Edmonton hospital in advance of the gathering.

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Residence Herron lacked staff, supplies before COVID-19 pandemic, Quebec coroner hears

She said the ratio of health-care workers to patients was inadequate, and the residence was dealing with frequent staff turnover.Bossé said the lack of employees was a result of low wages, adding that patient attendants in the residence were earning $12 an hour in 2019.The coroner inquiry’s mandate is to investigate 53 deaths at six long-term care homes and one seniors residence.

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New Paisley covid testing site opens in shopping centre tomorrow

Available on both Android and Apple. Download here: smarturl.it/RenfrewLiveSocialThe test centre will be open to everyone, including students arriving in town for the new academic term.It will be open from 10am to 4.30pm each day until Saturday 25 September – apart from Sunday 19, when it will be closed.

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COVID-19 hospital protests ‘a morale blow’ to Canada’s exhausted health-care workers

COVID-19, throngs of anti-vaxxers are now protesting vaccine passports at their workplaces.As a result, the demonstrations have led to patients wading through crowds of anti-vaxxers, and at times provided a challenge for paramedics to find safe passage to transport them.“As a front-line emergency physician practising in three hospitals, this is frankly disgusting,” said Dr. Raghu Venugopal, a Toronto emergency physician.

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COVID-19: MLHU reports 52 cases, 1 death from Saturday to Monday

The Middlesex-London Health Unit reported 52 COVID-19 cases from Saturday to Monday, though the total case count increased by 53.Eleven of those cases are attributed to Monday’s tally, 22 on Sunday and 19 on Saturday. The MLHU also reported a death on Saturday involving a woman in her 80s, not associated with a long-term care or retirement home.

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COVID-19 boosters not yet needed, says group of health experts

they concluded.The opinion piece, published in The Lancet, illustrates the intense scientific debate about who needs booster doses and when, a decision the U.S. and other countries are grappling with.FILE - Nurse of Curative prepares the Pfizer vaccine during a COVID-19 vaccination clinic.

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India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage breaches 75 crores mark

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COVID-19: Over 80% of Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph is now fully vaccinated

COVID-19.The milestone announced on Monday comes over nine months since public health began its vaccine rollout during the first week of January.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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