COVID-19: Alberta government orders AHS to end vaccine mandate for health-care workers | FULL

Alberta’s Health Minister Jason Copping and chief medical officer of health Deena Hinshaw gave a COVID-19 update for the province on Tuesday.

Copping announced he has directed Alberta Health Services to lift its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for staff on March 10, five days earlier than a draft directive leaked last week indicated.

On the two-year anniversary of Alberta’s first confirmed case of COVID-19, Hinshaw said they are looking back at how the pandemic played out and where the province goes from here. She said COVID-19 is still a threat, but the risk has been reduced and asked people to be patient and respectful of each other’s choices on how to deal with it.

As of Monday afternoon, there were 1,103 people in hospital with COVID-19 in Alberta. Of those, 77 were being treated in intensive care. The number of people in hospital has been slowly declining over the past several weeks. There were 7,158 lab-confirmed active cases of COVID-19 in the province on Monday, a number that has also continued to decline.

However, because of limited access to PCR testing in Alberta, health officials have said the number of active and new cases is much higher than what’s being reported.

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