#Sound wave vector bars update

Alberta is reporting an R-value below 1.Without the additional surge spaces, ICU capacity would be at 143 per cent, AHS says. Provincially, ICU capacity (including additional surge beds) is at 80 per cent.Alberta Health Services reportsВ there are 155В patients in ICU, the majority of whom areВ COVID positive, as of Nov.315,175В AlbertansВ are considered to have recovered from COVID-19.вЂ‹вЂ‹вЂ‹вЂ‹.Since the pandemic began, 3,133В Albertans have died of COVID.The total number of active cases in Alberta is 6,693.Alberta reported 487 newВ COVIDВ casesВ and 14В deaths on Wednesday.Cancer surgeries in the province have fully resumed, Copping said Wednesday.Copping said AHS is restoring surgery volumes as fast as possible as pressureВ on ICUs decreases.В SurgeryВ volumes are at approximately two-thirds of normal surgery levels and climbing.

Despite declines in the number of cases announced daily and the numberВ of people in hospital since the peak of the fourth wave, Alberta ICU occupancy is still 139 per cent above non-surge capacity.The full list of eligible people can be found on the province's website. Alberta had previously expanded the number of immunocompromised people who are eligible for a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.The four groups now eligible will be able to receive the booster dose as ofВ Monday.Those who received two doses of a viral vector vaccine, for example AstraZeneca and Janssen, are eligible for a booster shot.Health-care workers who work directly with patients, who received their second COVID-19 doseВ within eight weeks of their first, are also eligible.Those people include all Albertans aged 70 and older, and all First Nations, MГ©tis, and InuitВ people older thanВ 18В who are more than six months out from their last shot of COVID-19.

Kenney announced Wednesday that more Albertans will now be eligible to receive a COVID-19 booster shot.

#Sound wave vector bars update

Deena Hinshaw gave an update on COVID-19 on Wednesday. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Health Minister Jason Copping and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr.