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Alberta ending its vaccine-passport system as of midnight
 [Toronto Star] EDMONTON—Alberta’s vaccine passport program ends at midnight on Tuesday, Premier Jason Kenney has announced.The passport system — formally the Restrictions Exemption Program, requiring people prove they’ve been vaccinated before they can go to restaurants or attend events — is the first of the province’s current public health restrictions to go, in a phased approach Kenney laid out in a news conference on Tuesday. "Now is the time to begin learning to live with COVID," said Kenney. "These restrictions have led to terrible division. "We cannot remain at a heightened state of emergency forever. We have to begin to heal." Kenney announced a three-stage approach for further loosening of public health restrictions. First, the province will remove nearly all restrictions for children, including the mask mandate in schools (kindergarten to Grade 12) over the coming weekend. Kids aged 12 and under also won’t have to abide by the general mask mandate in Alberta, though the general mandate will still apply for everyone else. "It is time to let kids be kids," said Kenney. Posted by: Besoeker 2022-02-09 |
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