Premier Jason Kenney plus top ministers, health officials to update Albertans on COVID-19
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Premier Jason Kenney and Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer of health, will update Albertans on COVID-19 on Tuesday afternoon.
Kenney and Hinshaw will be joined by Health Minister Jason Copping, Education Minister Adriana LaGrange and Dr. Verna Yiu, president and CEO of Alberta Health Services.
The news conference is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. You can watch it live here.
CBC Radio will also carry the news conference live across Alberta.
Tuesday's news conference comes on the heels of the Opposition NDP urging Kenney to use the military to do contact tracing for COVID-19 in schools, where positive cases are increasing among elementary students, NDP education critic Sarah Hoffman said Tuesday.
Earlier this year, Alberta ended contact tracing in schools and lifted a mandatory requirement for students to isolate after close contact with a positive case.
An advocacy group called Support Our Students, which is tracking COVID-19 cases in Alberta schools, said almost 10 per cent of elementary and secondary schools have active outbreaks.
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