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Alberta government extends E. coli compensation program to more daycares

Sep 26, 2023 | 3:50 PM

CALGARY – The Alberta government appears to have extended a one-time payment of $2,000 for each child affected by an E. coli outbreak in Calgary to 19 daycares.

Alberta Children and Family Services posted a link to an online application form on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, on Monday.

The form links to a list of daycares, which includes the original 11 daycares affected by the outbreak as well as eight others that have since had partial or full closures due to secondary transmission.

The government has scheduled an update on the E. coli outbreak on Wednesday at 9 a.m.

Minister Searle Turton also put out a Facebook post saying it includes families whose child-care program was fully closed or directly affected by a partial closure or exclusion order due to the E. coli outbreak declared on Sept. 4.

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Turton’s post says the details would be revealed in the coming days, and Alberta Children and Family Services declined to comment, so it wasn’t immediately clear how much more the program would cost or how many people would receive payments.

The program was initially expected to cost more than $2.5 million for nearly 1,300 children.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 26, 2023.

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