{"id":6371,"date":"2024-06-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2024-06-23T17:32:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T21:32:36","slug":"covid-19-on-the-rise-in-alberta-as-summer-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-on-the-rise-in-alberta-as-summer-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 on the rise in Alberta as summer approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albertans can expect a further COVID-19 bump, driven by yet another crop of new variants, experts are cautioning.<\/p>\n<p>COVID cases, hospitalizations and positivity rates have been rising since April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike other respiratory illnesses, we\u2019re not really getting a summer reprieve,\u201d said Sarah (Sally) Otto, a COVID-19 modeller and professor in the department of zoology at the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing this across Canada and globally, that there\u2019s an uptick in cases. And that\u2019s coming from these new variants [and the] evolution of this virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The KP.2 and KP.3 variants, combined, <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/stats\/dashboard\/respiratory-virus-dashboard.htm?data=variants#variants\" rel=\"noopener\">now account for more than half<\/a> of Alberta\u2019s sequenced cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albertans can expect a further COVID-19 bump, driven by yet another crop of new variants, experts are cautioning.<\/p>\n<p>COVID cases, hospitalizations and positivity rates have been rising since April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike other respiratory illnesses, we\u2019re not really getting a summer reprieve,\u201d said Sarah (Sally) Otto, a COVID-19 modeller and professor in the department of zoology at the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing this across Canada and globally, that there\u2019s an uptick in cases. And that\u2019s coming from these new variants [and the] evolution of this virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The KP.2 and KP.3 variants, combined, <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/stats\/dashboard\/respiratory-virus-dashboard.htm?data=variants#variants\" rel=\"noopener\">now account for more than half<\/a> of Alberta\u2019s sequenced cases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-on-the-rise-in-alberta-as-summer-approaches\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19 on the rise in Alberta as summer approaches<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,96,18,78,1094,1115,287,14,230,47],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitalizations","tag-kp-2","tag-kp-3","tag-new-wave","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","tag-variants","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6372,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions\/6372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}