Premier Kenney begins his presser by offering condolences to the royal family over the death of Prince Philip.

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Kenney says more than 250k health care workers and associated staff will be able to book for their first dose on April 12.

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Kenney says this is the first step of phase 2C.

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Who can book vaccines on Monday?

Kenney says Community physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, chiropractors, massage therapist, physical therapists optometrists- along with their associated staff.
Kenney says they expect to receive about 100k doses per week this spring.

Kenney says they should be able to offer ever adult their first dose by the end of June, if not sooner.
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Alberta opens up in-school rapid testing program
to up to 300 schools in Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge and Grande Prairie.

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Kenney says they will be distributing 400,000 rapid tests for 200,000 students and their teachers.

Should reach about 1/3 of all students and staff.
Kenney says they will safely be continuing in-school classes to whatever extent possible.

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Says rollout based on nat'l and provincial expert advice they've received.

Says they won't do this on arbitrary pressure, but on scientific advice.
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674 new variant cases in Alberta, now accounting for 45.5% of all active COVID cases.

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- 1429 new COVID cases in AB on 15000 tests (9.4%+)
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717 new variant cases found in Alberta.

Variants now represent about 45% of all active cases.

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Adds that B117 seems to cause more severe illness than original.

Unsure if other two strains are more severe outcomes - evidence still coming in.

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- 459 new COVID cases in Alberta on 12,800 tests (3.6%)
- 12 new deaths reported, now up to 1599
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Alberta confirms that it will fund Zolgensma on a case by case basis for kids suffering SMA.

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Shandro says he cannot speak to specific patients.

Specialist physicians will receive info to help families figure out eligibility and applications.

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