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Tulips bloom in front of the Farm and Forest Building at the University of Alberta on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Edmonton. Photo by Greg Southam / Postmedia
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As news about COVID-19 changes every day, we’ve created this file to keep you up to date with all the latest stories and information in and around Edmonton.
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Are you experiencing symptoms of COVID-19?
Before calling Health Link, use the COVID-19 assessment and testing tool to check for symptoms.
Health Link continues to experience high daily call volumes, and Alberta Health Services (AHS) encourages all Alberta residents to evaluate their symptoms or the symptoms of someone they care for using the online assessment and testing tool before calling. on Health Link.
AHS updates COVID-19 assessment and testing tool to make it easier for Alberts to assess their symptoms, determine if they need to talk to someone about their symptoms, such as their doctor or Health Link staff, have access to self-care tips to help manage mild symptoms of COVID-19 at home and to determine whether or not they qualify for PCR testing.
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The tool has up-to-date guidelines for adults, children and young people and is available at ahs.ca/covidscreen.
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COVID-19 in Alberta
Here are the data for COVID-19, published today by Alberta Health, covering a seven-day period from May 3 to May 9. The data is updated every Wednesday afternoon:
- The province reported 3,106 new cases of COVID-19 in seven days through 18,349 completed tests.
- 1,165 people are in hospital with COVID-19, a reduction of 60 from May 9. There are 42 people in the intensive care unit, which is an increase of five since May 9.
- There were 55 other COVID-related deaths reported to Alberta’s health services, bringing the total to 4,452 since the pandemic.
- The two-dose vaccination rate in Alberta for the population aged 12 and over is 87 percent.
Thursday
COVID infections among adult Canadians tripled during the Omicron wave compared to previous waves: study
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The samples to be tested for COVID-19 will be seen at a laboratory in Surrey, British Columbia, on March 26, 2020. Photo by Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press / File
TORONTO – The number of adult Canadians infected with COVID-19 has tripled during the fifth wave of the pandemic compared to the total number of adults infected in the previous four waves, according to a new study led by Toronto researchers.
More than 5,000 Canadian adults – members of the Angus Reed Forum, a public research group – participated in the fourth phase of the coronavirus (Ab-C) action study. The results of the study were published as a letter to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.
Adult participants took a self-administered dry blood spot test between January 15 and March 15, 2022, and sent the blood samples back to the researchers for analysis. The research team then tested the COVID-19-related antibody samples.
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From these results, the researchers found that nearly 30 percent of adult Canadians were infected during the first wave of Omicron infections, compared with approximately 10 percent who were infected in the previous four waves.
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Thursday
Reservations reduced at Alberta Parks campsites before the long May weekend
Dylan Short, Calgary Herald
Camping in Kananaskis. Photo by Supplied / Alberta Parks
Reservations at Alberta Parks campsites are declining this year in the run-up to the long May weekend and the unofficial start of the summer camping season.
Nancy MacDonald, interim executive director of visitor experience and business support for Alberta Parks, said the openings remain at 66 of 95 campsites as of Wednesday afternoon. On Wednesday before the long weekend last year, there were openings in 30 of the 95 sites.
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“This year, now that people have some more opportunities – they can leave the countryside and we are moving to a different level of sensitivity to COVID – we certainly have fewer reserves than we had at the time last year,” McDonald said. “So we certainly encourage anyone who is still thinking of camping this weekend to check out the reservation at albertaparks.ca.”
MacDonald said that in addition to easing COVID’s restrictions, she believes changes made to the reservation system itself are contributing to added availability. Alberta Parks opened its online booking system year-round earlier this year, not just for the summer months. The number of nights that can be booked in each reservation has dropped to 10, out of 16, and a fee has been introduced to change reservations after they have been made.
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A pedestrian makes his way through a mixture of snow and rain near 87 Avenue and 114th Street in Edmonton, Wednesday, April 27, 2022. Photo: David Bloom / Postmedia
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A new law on drunken crime is needed
Now that the Supreme Court of Canada has given every rapist or spouse a means to escape any consequences, effectively claiming that “it’s not my fault, the devil made me do it”, we hope that Parliament will take action. swift action to correct the impact of this technically legitimate but terrifying public impact solution.
If it can be proven that the person was clearly psychotic at the time, the protection against insanity must be maintained. However, if a psychotic person is “excluded from his or her medication” or if an adult ingests a substance that he or she knows or should have known clearly carries a clear risk of deinhibition, he or she must be responsible for the outcome of his or her actions.
One can hope that the person can at least be held accountable for criminal negligence causing bodily harm or death. We do the same with someone who drives a car. The sentence then imposed could reflect all the variables that are included, thus leading to a lighter or heavier sentence so that true justice can be achieved.
We can only hope that in these days of political positioning and endless signaling of virtue, Parliament will quickly get to the root of this persistent problem and come up with a long-term solution of a real nature.
Dennis Brown, Edmonton
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Tuesday
Alberta reports 55 deaths, the percentage of positive tests continues to decline
Kellen Taniguchi, Edmonton Journal
Secretary of Health Jason Kopping. Photo by Darren Makovichuk / Postmedia, file
Alberta reported on Tuesday a steady decline in COVID-19 test levels over the past week and an average of nine deaths a day.
Health Secretary Jason Kopping said it was the third week in a row that positive PCR test levels had dropped. The province reported an average weekly percentage of positive tests of 19.9% from May 10 to 16, compared to 23% last week and 25.9% the previous week.
“There have been more signs in the last week that we are leaving the BA.2 wave behind,” Koping said during the COVID-19 update on Tuesday.
Koping said wastewater data also showed a drop in COVID-19, with levels in most centers “declining or fluctuating” at levels well below the BA.1 wave. He said wastewater levels in Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge and Red Deer show a wide range of variations, but continue to decline.
He said it makes sense for larger centers to take longer to fall due to higher population density.
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Tuesday
North Korea mobilizes army, intensifies tracking amid COVID wave
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This photo, taken on May 16, 2022 and released by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) of North Korea on May 17, shows officers from the Korean People’s Army’s medical field who will deliver drugs to resolve the crisis by preventing the epidemic. due to the spread of the Covid-19 Coronavirus in Pyongyang. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) Photo by STR / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP via Getty Image
SEOUL – North Korea has mobilized its military to distribute COVID drugs and deployed more than 10,000 health workers to help track potential patients as it fights a broad wave of coronavirus, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday.
The isolated country is battling its first recognized outbreak of COVID-19, which it confirmed last week, fueling fears of a major crisis due to a lack of vaccines and adequate medical infrastructure.
The State Headquarters for Prevention of Emergency Epidemics announced …
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