Dr. Deena Hinshaw is scheduled to provide another COVID-19 update for Albertans on Thursday afternoon.The province’s chief medical officer of health is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m.
Her news conference will be streamed live in this post.On Wednesday, Hinshaw announced the province’s first community transmission cases of the P.1 variant, first detected in Brazil.
Alberta records first 2 cases of Brazil COVID-19 variant due to community spread Two cases of the variant were confirmed Tuesday to have been spread in the community.There were 692 cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Wednesday, including 202 cases of variants of concern.Hinshaw said Wednesday variant cases now make up 19 per cent of all active cases of COVID-19 in Alberta, a jump.