Under a probable scenario, COVID-19 could claim between 400 to 3,100 Albertans’ lives by the end of summer, Premier Jason Kenney announced in a televised address to the province on Tuesday night.
The numbers are based on modelling done by Alberta Health around the coronavirus pandemic and the premier said officials also prepared a model for an “elevated scenario.” “Under the more serious but less likely ‘elevated scenario,’ we would see infections peak at the beginning of May, with as many as one-million infections, and between 500 and 6,600 deaths,” Kenney said in the stark address.
As of Tuesday evening, Alberta has seen 1,373 people test positive for COVID-19 — and 26 of those cases have resulted in fatalities. “I will not sugar coat