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Tattoo store nonetheless taking appointments regardless of restrictions ordered to shut by AHS
Alberta Well being Companies ordered a tattoo store to shut after an inspector seen it was nonetheless open and taking appointments.
A well being inspector walked into the New Dimension Tattoo store at 808 Edmonton Tr. N.E. on Thursday and famous it was open and “taking appointments for consultations and tattoo companies,” in accordance with an AHS govt order issued Friday to proprietor Peel Smith.
The AHS inspector additionally famous that the employees on the entrance desk didn’t placed on a masks, regardless of chatting with the well being inspector inside a distance of two metres, and there was no bodily barrier on the entrance desk. Each actions “may contribute to the unfold of COVID-19,” the chief order stated. The store was instantly ordered closed by the inspector.
Private companies together with physique, nostril and ear piercing and tattoos usually are not permitted in Alberta as of Sunday as a consequence of public well being orders to stop the unfold of COVID-19.
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Metropolis police in ‘nearly untenable place’ imposing COVID-19 legal guidelines
Calgary police are being put in awkward positions in imposing some COVID-19 restrictions, a senior officer stated Friday.
Supt. Ryan Ayliffe stated the arrest of a person at an outside skating rink Thursday for allegedly failing to adjust to a public well being order’s bodily distancing part is just one instance of officers going through unfamiliar dilemmas because the pandemic grinds on into its tenth month.
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1,413 new instances, 25 deaths
Alberta chief medical officer of well being Dr. Deena Hinshaw is anticipated to supply an replace on the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta at 4:30 p.m.
- 1,413 new instances on 19,538 exams; 7.4% positivity fee
- 759 in hospital; 141 in ICUs
- 25 extra deaths; 815 whole
- 19,607 lively instances (lowest it’s been since Dec. 5); 67,159 recovered
- 443 faculties with lively alerts or outbreaks, 19% of faculties in Alberta; 1,971 instances in these faculties