Global News published this video item, entitled “Protests, opposition across Alberta as new COVID-19 restrictions set to kick in” – below is their description.
Alberta remains Canada’s biggest hotspot for COVID-19 infections, with it’s seven-day case average hovering just below 2,000 a day, while it’s number of active cases per capita remain the highest in the country at 568.
Now, tougher pandemic restrictions are about to kick in this week, aimed at the halting the ongoing surge of the virus. But Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is facing more blowback, as the new public health measures are meeting their staunchest opposition yet, with vocal protests across the province.
As Breanna Karstens-Smith reports, some Albertans believe the health measures go too far, while some health experts say they’re too little, too late.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Covid-19 is the official WHO name given to the novel coronavirus which broke out in late 2019 and began to spread in the early months of 2020.
Symptoms of coronavirus
The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
a persistent new cough (non productive, dry)
a high temperature (e.g. head feels warm to the touch)
shortness of breath (if this is abnormal for the individual, or increased)
Latest News about Covid-19
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