Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says Calgary and the city of Brooks will get a lot more advance notice this time around on opening up their economies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kenney says a decision will be made and announced Friday on whether those two communities will be allowed to reopen restaurants and hair salons on Monday as proposed.
"I very much regret that more notice was not given," Kenney told reporters Tuesday. "I was expecting us to be able to proceed provincewide based on the indications I had received and based on the direction of the data, but Dr. Hinshaw came to us with this advice." "I subsequently met with Dr. Hinshaw and said, 'Look we've got to make sure that doesn't happen again. If for any reason there's a recommendation from the public health authorities not to proceed, we've got to able to give people an indication of that with enough lead time to plan.
Thursday's reopening came with health restrictions. Restaurants, for example, can open only at half capacity to reduce the spread of the disease.On Tuesday, Hinshaw reported Alberta has 1,004 active cases, with 61 people in hospital. There have been 127 deaths.
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