Five COVID-19-related deaths were reported on Monday in the province, two at the Good Samaritan Southgate Care Center.
The most recent deaths in the establishment, one man in the 80s and another in the 90s, raised his total to 27.
A man and a women, both in their 60s, died in the south zone and a man in his 60s in northern Alberta also died from COVID-19 over the weekend. Monday’s update provided information from over the weekend as the province no longer releases data on Saturdays or Sundays.
The Southgate Care Center showed its first COVID-19 case on June 13, and the first death came a month later. The facility outbreak is now linked to more deaths than any long-term care home in Alberta.
Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw said the province is allowing for additional workers to take shifts at the facility to ensure staff can provide for patients and limit the spread of the virus.
The province restricted health care personnel to paint on a to restrict the spread of the virus in April. The Southgate Care Center won an exemption from this rule on July 25.
“I make no exceptions lightly, ” said Hinshaw. “But I also want to make sure that citizens get the care they want and that it is done in a way that doesn’t put others at risk.”
New Democratic fitness critic David Shepherd said the government wants to play a more direct role in taking the situation.
“If we have a place where it’s necessarily a hot zone for COVID-19, getting in and out of that facility is one of the maximum harmful steps to take when we seek to involve this epidemic,” he told me. .
Shepherd said the government can simply seek to rent hired staff or assign a body of Alberta physical care personnel to the site, just like the B.C. the government coordinated its fitness care staff. He said the Alberta government may also be offering incentives such as the threat premium or proposing higher wages to attract more staff to the site.
The Alberta Provincial Employees Union (AUPE) has Health Minister Tyler Shandro of Alberta Health Services (AHS) to take over the operations of the Southgate Care Center.
“Nearly two weeks ago, AUPE asked AHS to resume operations,” AUPE Vice President Susan Slade said in a press release. “It is transparent that they deserve to have listened to us at that time. It’s not too late. We call on Shandro to act now to save lives. Putting this space under the public fitness formula is the only right solution. »
Hinshaw stated that the resolution of restarting the installation via AHS does not exclude others with the authorization of an exemption. She said an acquisition has more to do with management and accountability, while an exemption is to make sure there are enough staff who can come to work.
“In this case, a site exemption was needed for singles, as citizens’ attention was in jeopardy if they could not get more staff to provide everything those citizens needed,” Hinshaw said.
On Monday, 257 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Alberta. This number consists of known instances on the weekend. They met 108 on August 7, 101 on August 8 and 48 on August 9.
A total of 10,384 more people in Alberta have recovered from the virus and another 2 thirteen people have died. Lately there are 66 other people hospitalized with COVID-19, thirteen of whom are in intensive care. There are 1,090 active instances in the province.
There were 120,132 cases shown of COVID-19 and 8,987 similar deaths nationwide, according to the most recent Health Canada figures. Worldwide, there have been 19,718,030 cases and 728,013 deaths, the World Health Organization reports.
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