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Talk of the Town on Removing COVID-19 Restrictions Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent
Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw announced that starting on August 16, Albertans who test positive for COVID-19 will not be required to isolate or quarantine, there will be no more contact tracing, and asymptomatic COVID-19 testing, and testing for people with COVID-19 symptoms. Local citizens weighed in on the decision this past week. Velma Sample, a senior citizen, said she feels a little bit nervous about these changes as their generation has never experienced anything like this before so they don’t have the knowledge. “So, it is hard to say what is best and what will happen if they aren’t careful anymore. But at the same time, I suppose there needs to be a time that they open up everything and remove the restrictions as quite a few people have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19. I am hoping that everything will turn out alright.” Kim Kenward feels the Alberta Government needs to continue to monitor the data in terms of what’s happening with COVID-19 in order to support maintaining these restrictions. “You can’t decide to not test people. You have to keep accumulating data. You can’t assume that this is just like any other flu or respiratory infectious thing because they don’t have the data. Also, I don’t think they should make the call not to have people isolate until they have the data to support the fact that they aren’t going to go through another huge wave. I think the current
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