EDMONTON -- Alberta reported another 296 new cases of COVID-19 after completing approximately 6,800 tests. The numbers were reported in a live update given by Dr.
Deena Hinshaw, the chief medical officer of health for the province, on Thursday.COVID-19 in Edmonton: Numbers broken down by neighbourhood
Hinshaw reported that over 44,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine was administered Wednesday, raising the provincial total to over 2.88 million doses given.New preliminary data shared by Hinshaw demonstrating that vaccines are “remarkably effective” at containing COVID-19 infections, Hinshaw said. Eighty-eight per cent of deaths since Jan. 1 were people who had not received a vaccine or who contracted COVID-19 before they had immunity.
According to the top doctor, vaccine estimates for AstraZeneca or other non-mRNA vaccine effectiveness and emerging variants is not available at this time due to limited sample sizes.
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