On Wednesday afternoon, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health will provide an update on the COVID-19 situation in the province.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m. That update will be streamed live in this story.

On Tuesday, Hinshaw said there had been 57 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the province, bringing the total to 5,893. Of those, 3,219 people had recovered.

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Hinshaw also announced two additional deaths on Tuesday. There have now been 106 deaths related to COVID-19 in Alberta.

Both those deaths were related to long-term care centres in Calgary. Hinshaw said there are currently 622 outbreak cases in continuing care centres across the province.

This story will be updated after Hinshaw’s news conference.

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