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Albertans aged 18 and older now have an additional COVID-19 vaccine option.

Minister of Health Jason Copping issued the following statement on Alberta Rural Health Week:

All Albertans will soon be able to receive a second dose of vaccine, helping fully protect them and all Albertans from COVID-19.

More than one million Albertans have received their third vaccine dose, helping to protect them from COVID-19.

Provincewide public health measures will be gradually lifted as the fifth wave of COVID-19 subsides and pressure on the health-care system eases.

Alberta is among the first provinces and territories in Canada to provide access to the new cystic fibrosis drug Trikafta.

Alberta will soon begin piloting point-of-care rapid testing for COVID-19, providing faster, more convenient testing for the disease.

As COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to decline and pressure on the health-care system decreases, step two of the province’s path back to normal will begin on March 1.

Alberta will take the final step in its plan to ease public health measures as the province moves past the Omicron BA.2 wave and COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to decline.

Alberta will become the second province in Canada to screen all newborns for spinal muscular atrophy so they can be treated earlier and more effectively.