COVID-19 in Alberta today: Copping to give pandemic, vaccine updates

Alberta reported 238 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, including its first of the Omicron variant.  The case was confirmed in a returning traveller from Nigeria and the Netherlands, according to Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw. They have been quarantined since, and Alberta Health has boosted its contact tracing and testing strategies since the strain was first detected in South Africa.  As of Tuesday, 3,248 Albertans had died from COVID-19.  There were 4,545 acti