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Nearly 4,300 public complaints about alleged violations of regulations to combat COVID-19 have been received by Alberta Health Services.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the AHS had fielded 4,292 complaints or requests for service related to COVID-19 since Jan. 27.

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Those numbers came on the same day the UCP government announced it was moving Bill 10, legislation that will give law enforcement full authority to crack down on those who violate health orders during a pandemic.

“The complaints have mainly related to facilities that should be closed, or are not following controls, social distancing, and self-isolation,” said an emailed statement from AHS.

“The vast majority of these have come in in the past three weeks.”

It said 438 complaints were focused on a failure to self-isolate.

About half of the complaints — 2,248 — were made through an AHS online portal requesting the public report possible breaches of laws that require international travellers or those exposed to the lethal virus to self-isolate for 14 days.