By Canadian Press

Kenney to speak as COVID-19 caseloads continue to overwhelm Alberta’s hospital system

Sep 30, 2021 | 1:47 PM

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is to speak later today on the ongoing COVID-19 crisis that continues to overwhelm the provincial health system.

Kenney is to meet with reporters alongside Tim Grant, the head of Alberta’s public service, Health Minister Jason Copping and Dr. Verna Yiu, the head of Alberta Health Services.

The meeting comes as more doctors have added to calls for a swift lockdown of the economy to stem the tide of COVID-19 patients.

Physicians in the emergency medicine section of the Alberta Medical Association are now calling for an immediate firebreak on the economy to reduce caseloads that have averaged well over a thousand new cases a day for weeks.

Intensive care physicians, the head of the Alberta Medical Association, and the Canadian Medical Association have issued similar pleas in recent days.

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Alberta has more than doubled its existing intensive care ward capacity, and doctors say without relief soon, life-saving care may have to be rationed.
 

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 30, 2021.

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