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New COVID-19 public health order allows up to two people at a time to visit a person who is dying

“It’s very sad for all the rodeo committees and all the towns that host the rodeos,” said Cochrane cowboy Tanner Milan. “It’s absolutely terrible we don’t get rodeos to go to, but at the same time you have to take care of your community and make sure that none of this is getting spread around.”

“Changing is not easy, but it’s alright I can’t complain because it's with everybody,” Thind said. “It’s better than close down.”

Later this week, officials will begin announcing measures to “gradually, prudently” move toward more “economic and social activity,” Kenney said.

“It’s just about being creative and thinking from the perspective of a kid, ‘What would be fun for you and what would take some of that stress away,’” Topp said.

“The prairies are really my home and just looking into a field of prairie grass and big sky is to me so calming,” said artist Starr Kolb. “You can’t beat it— That’s kind of my core.”

Alberta has 216 new cases of the coronavirus and two more deaths

“It is critically important that we continue to work together, abiding to the suggestions and cautions set out by our emergency management team and government officials.”

A fire ban will be put in place effective at 1 p.m. Monday (April 27).