Category Archives: COVID-19 Coronavirus

COVID hospitalizations continue to rise in Alberta
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The province has released its latest report on COVID-19 for Wednesday, covering statistics from the past 24 hours.3,024 cases were confirmed across the province, bringing the total to...
Feb 02, 2022

Premier expects health measures will be relaxed in February
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Alberta's premier says there are continued encouraging trends with COVID-19 and the province has passed the peak of the Omicron wave.Jason Kenney adds that there has been continuing...
Feb 02, 2022

NHL Notebook: Players, coaches welcome league's latest COVID-19 protocols
Morning nasal swabs have been routine for NHL players in recent months - and it's a regime many are eager to leave behind. The league updated its COVID-19 protocol on Monday, dropping daily testing re...
Feb 02, 2022

Trial of 3 cops in Floyd death delayed by COVID-19 diagnosis
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The judge at the trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd's rights was abruptly recessed on Wednesday after one of the defendants te...
Feb 02, 2022

Canadian figure skater Messing awaiting negative COVID-19 tests in Canada
BEIJING - Keegan Messing's Olympic Games are in jeopardy. The 30-year-old isn't with Canada's figure skating team at the Beijing Olympics, as he waits to clear COVID-19 testing to travel. The delay me...
Feb 02, 2022

More provinces preparing to loosen COVID-19 restrictions in coming weeks
More provinces say they are preparing to loosen COVID-19 restrictions in the coming weeks, even as virus-related hospitalizations remain high. British Columbia's provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie ...
Feb 02, 2022

AHS reports four COVID deaths in South Zone including two in Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The province has released its latest report on COVID-19 for Tuesday, covering statistics from the past 24 hours.1,980 cases were confirmed across the province, bringing the total to 4...
Feb 01, 2022

Pfizer asks FDA to allow COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, potentially opening the way for the very youngest Americans to start recei...
Feb 01, 2022

'I'm just exhausted': Inside a Toronto hospital during the Omicron wave of COVID-19
TORONTO - Paula Abramcyzk sighs at the unknown her day will bring. Odds are, in the heart of the Omicron wave, someone will die in the intensive care unit at Humber River Hospital in Toronto. The ICU ...
Feb 01, 2022

Trucker protest continues in Ottawa, Trudeau contracts COVID: In The News for Feb. 1
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 1 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Feb 01, 2022