By Chris Brown

Cabinet shuffle today before COVID-19 update

Sep 21, 2021 | 11:55 AM

Premier Jason Kenney will make changes to his cabinet this afternoon.

A cabinet ceremony has been scheduled for 3:30 p.m., after which he will join chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw at 5 p.m. for a COVID-19 update.

We’ll carry them both at chatnewstoday.ca.

There is no mention of Health Minister Tyler Shandro at the COVID update, leading to talk among political watchers that he will be out as health minister.

Speculation is that Jason Copping will be named the new health minister. Copping is the current minister of labour and immigration.

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Alberta has more than 20,000 active cases of COVID-19 on Monday after 4,633 new cases were reported over the weekend.

The province reported 22 COVID-19 deaths over the weekend, and Alberta’s COVID-19 hospitalizations have reached a record-high.

There are 650 active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Monday.

Medicine Hat has had 3,392 total cases – the 650 active, 2,695 recovered and there have been 48 deaths.