Ontario continues to say the Pfizer shot is preferred for ages five to 11. Health Canada approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages six to 11 on March 17. The diverted cases were for general operations, such as appendicitis and bowel resections.Ħ p.m.: Ontario has updated its vaccine policies to include Moderna for ages six to 11. Scheduled surgeries and emergency cases were not transferred, according to AHS. “That’s the strength of our system, to be able to move people around because our system is under strain.”Īlberta Health Services, better known as AHS, confirmed it had to divert the patients to other care centres in central Alberta or to Edmonton and Calgary due primarily to a shortage of clinical assistants who help in the surgeries. “I’m going to put this into perspective: roughly 250 surgeries per week are performed in Red Deer we had to move seven (patients),” Health Minister Jason Copping told the legislature Monday. Web links to longer stories if available.ħ:19 p.m.: Alberta’s health minister says a handful of surgery patients had to be temporarily transferred out of a hospital on the weekend due to staffing issues. This file will be updated throughout the day. The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Monday.
