Omicron in Alberta: No cases yet, government and health officials to talk new COVID-19 variant Monday

Alberta's top doctor says her department is contacting people who've recently arrived from one of the southern Africa countries of interest for the Omicron COVID-19 variant and they must quarantine for two weeks.

Ontario announced Canada's first cases of the B.1.1.529 strain.

series of tweets, she said Alberta Health was working with its counterparts across the country and Alberta Health Services on a "proactive plan to manage any future travel-related and Omicron cases here in Alberta."