Alberta health officials deliver update on COVID-19 in the province | FULL

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Alberta added 355 cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, as well as three additional fatalities.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw said those 355 cases came from 6,018 tests — giving a provincial positivity rate of 5.9 per cent.

Of the 355 positives, Hinshaw said there were 62 variant cases — 61 of the U.K. variant and one of the South African variant.

“Thanks to the hard work of our labs, we are screening every positive case for variants of concern and now have a surge capacity of screening up to 1,000 samples per day if needed,” Hinshaw said.

She added that of the 4,776 active COVID-19 cases in the province — 509 or 11 per cent of them are variants.

“The toll that variants have taken on the U.K., Italy and other countries are a cautionary tale that we must continue to take very seriously,” Hinshaw said.

“Our aggressive screening, dedicated contact tracing and other measures have been buying time for the vaccines to work.

“In some ways there is a race between the variants and the vaccines.”

Hinshaw also noted that 379,882 vaccination doses have now been administered to Albertans.

In the provincial rollout, another age bracket opens up each day for vaccination signup. On Tuesday, the provincial appointments were open to those born in 1948 or earlier, and for First Nations, Métis or Inuit people born in 1963 or earlier.

On Wednesday more dates will be added: Albertans born in 1949, 1950 and 1951, and First Nations, Métis and Inuit people in the province who were born in 1964, 1965, and 1966.

Hinshaw said that the decision to add on three birth years Wednesday after Alberta Health Services did extensive testing on the system.

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