Alberta will test everyone in continuing care facilities with outbreaks for COVID-19, symptomatic or not At the time, 32 of Alberta’s 50 deaths were in long-term care sites.
As of Nov. 9, 236 of the province’s 369 deaths were linked to these facilities. In both instances, that’s 64 per cent.Documents obtained by Global News from Alberta Health Services through a Freedom of Information request reveal, for the first time, what happened behind-the-scenes as the health authority scrambled to implement the testing and that questions about how to execute the testing persisted up to seven days after the announcement.On April 17, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr.