There have been recent changes to provincial health restrictions taking effect in August. Some of these changes include reducing requirements for isolation, removing mask requirements for public transportation, and ending contact tracing.

The World Health Organization recommends lowering your risks by knowing your risk and normalizing mask wearing They also recommend three actions to keep you safe when you’re in an area of widespread covid-19 transmission:

1. Location – open air spaces are safer than enclosed spaces.

2. Proximity – farther away from others is safer than close together

3. Time – shorter time periods with others are safer.

For more information on the Government of Alberta decisions see the Alberta.ca/covid19 update for July 28. For more information on WHO guidelines see who.int then navigate to the advice for public page.

Finally, these are hard, confusing times made harder and more confusing by all the conflicting information in the world, so be kind to each other.

Produced by Karly Coleman.