Wed Mar 9, 2022 – 4:54 pm EST
EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – The Canadian province of Alberta dropped a COVID jab mandate for healthcare workers put in place late last year.
“Alberta joins other provinces such as Manitoba and Quebec in lifting vaccination or testing mandates for workers,” the government said in a press release Tuesday.
Alberta Health Services (AHS) said that starting at 4 p.m. March 10, it will at the direction of Alberta Health Minister Jason Copping to “amend the organization’s Immunization of Workers for COVID-19 Policy.”
According to Copping, the AHS immunization policy was “implemented to protect patients, workers and the public earlier in the pandemic.”
“However, we are now in a different stage of our response and the overwhelming majority of our health-care workforce understands the importance of getting vaccinated. We need to make sure that every health-care worker who is available to work, can, which is why we are lifting this mandate.”
A report from last week hinted that such a policy change would soon be coming from the AHS.
The AHS noted that current workers who are “unvaccinated,” which include doctors, nurses, and lab technicians who were placed “on leave” for
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