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.
and her news conference will be carried live in this post. Alberta slams federal rollout of COVID-19 vaccine as positivity rate sits at 3.9% On Thursday, Hinshaw announced the province had confirmed an additional 461 new cases of COVID-19 over the previous 24-hour period.The province had conducted about 12,300 tests and the positivity rate sat at about 3.9 per cent.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]As of Thursday’s update, 591 people were in hospital, with 112 of those people in the ICU.Hinshaw also announced an additional seven people had died of COVID-19..