On Thursday afternoon, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw will provide an update on COVID-19 in the province.
The news conference is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. and will be livestreamed live in this story. According to a news release, the news conference will also include details about Alberta’s relaunch strategy.
On Wednesday, Hinshaw announced Alberta would be amending some of its restrictions related to long-term care sites in an effort to balance residents’ quality of life and COVID-19 concerns.
Alberta recorded seven additional deaths on Wednesday, all of them in continuing care sites in Calgary. That brought the province’s death toll to 87.