As of Thursday afternoon, the Edmonton zone had more than 1,200 active cases of COVID-19, nearly double the number a month earlier. Laughlin noted the city continues to see an average 97 per cent compliance rate of people wearing masks in public settings. "Keep doing what you're doing in terms of the public setting but that has to carry to some of these private settings." "We gotta step up our game again because it's happening across the city now," Knack said in an interview Thursday. Over the next week, Laughlin said the city will review bookings and permits for special event gatherings at city facilities for the rest of 2020.

Source: CBC News October 09, 2020 02:37 UTC