Starting Saturday, Alberta Health Services will no longer screen visitors to its gyms for illness or exposure to COVID-19, while virus centers will close.
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The fitness authority announced that April would end her home COVID-19 testing program, which had been in place to some extent since the pandemic began in March 2020.
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The resolution was based on declining degrees of respiratory illness in Alberta, AHS said.
They are under pressure that anyone who feels unwell, whether or not they have tested positive for a respiratory virus, deserves to avoid visiting gyms unless they are actively receiving care.
“Masks will continue to be held at the front of AHS and Covenant sites across the province, as continuous mask wearing will remain in place for all visitors, as well as staff, doctors and volunteers at all acute care and network facilities. sites,” AHS said.
The move comes as Alberta closes its COVID-19 PCR testing centers, and sites closed Friday. These molecular tests are now only available to others under threat of serious consequences if they are needed for clinical care and to those living in certain high-threat settings for epidemic control purposes. Free immediate test kits are still available at pharmacies.
In addition, the province replaced its COVID-19 isolation rules starting Saturday. They advise others with health problems to stay home until symptoms improve; previously, they, those who had tested positive for COVID-19, self-isolated for five days.
The end of any of the pandemic-era systems reflects the province’s broader transition to a novel coronavirus funding system, a decision that was reflected in the past in measures to lift all mandatory public fitness measures last year and, in particular, Reduce your virus case data reports. .
However, Albertans contract COVID-19 and die from the virus.
In the two weeks leading up to March 27, another 24 deaths in the past were attributed to COVID-19. The death toll from the pandemic stands at 5,643.
Among those recently reported deaths, a child under one year old. Provincial knowledge shows that the death occurred in December 2022 and was later reclassified as COVID-related. This is the first childhood death from COVID-19 reported in Alberta.
As of March 27, there were 465 COVID-19 patients in Alberta hospitals, 25 in intensive care units. Total hospitalization rates are the lowest since January 2022.
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