Dr. Deena Hinshaw will provide her daily update to Albertans on the COVID-19 situation and the public health response a little earlier than usual on Thursday.
Alberta’s chief medical officer of health is scheduled to speak at 3 p.m. It is expected Premier Jason Kenney will also comment.
Global News will stream the event live in this article. On Wednesday, Hinshaw said six more Albertans had died from COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 112.
Seventy new cases were confirmed, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Alberta to 5,963. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] Hinshaw said there were 632 cases in continuing care facilities.