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Summer COVID-19 transmission ticking up in Alberta
the province’s VOC dashboard. A doctor referral will soon be needed by some Albertans seeking PCR testing, province says On Tuesday, the World Health Organization warned the highly transmissible BA.5 subvariant is spreading at a “very intense level” and continues to drive waves of new cases.“The virus is running freely and countries are not effectively managing the disease burden,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom told a virtual press conference from Geneva, Switzerland.The seven-day average PCR positivity rate in Alberta for the week of July 5 was 18.3 per cent, up from 15 per cent from the prior week.On Tuesday, the province announced Albertans needing a PCR test to inform medical treatment must have a referral from a health-care professional.