By Chris Brown

Alberta tests over 500,000

New COVID-19 cases in Medicine Hat, nearby counties

Jul 8, 2020 | 4:00 PM

Medicine Hat has recorded one more case of COVID-19, bringing the total number over the course of the pandemic to 50.

Of those, 38 are recovered, 11 are active and there has been one death in the city.

The surrounding Cypress County and nearby County of Forty Mile have also each recorded one new case in the past 24 hours.

Cypress County has 30 total cases — 21 recovered cases and nine active ones.

The County of Forty Mile has three active cases and two recovered.

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Across the province, there were 46 new cases since Tuesday’s update, six in the South Zone.

In the South Zone, there are 1,381 total cases. Of those, 88 are active, 1,281 recovered and there have been 12 deaths in the zone, an increase of one since Tuesday. Three people in the South Zone are in hospital.

The South Zone death is in the County of Warner, the first recorded there. The county has 41 total cases, 39 active and one recovered.

Across the province, there are 608 active cases, a decrease of 12, and 7,716 recovered cases, an increase of 57. The province now has 8,482 total cases.

There are 55 Albertans in hospital, seven of which are in ICU. The provincial death toll rose by one to 158.

There were 6,268 tests were completed in the past 24 hours, pushing Alberta of 500,000 tests completed during the pandemic.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw announced July 2 that she will not be providing daily updates this week but that the online numbers will be updated daily.

The MD of Taber remains at 12 total cases, nine active and three recovered.

Special Areas No. 2 has no cases on the map. There was previously one recovered case and one death attributed to the region.

The County of Newell is showing one new active cases and 20 recovered. There is no change in Brooks, where there remains one active case. There have been 1,119 total cases in the city and 1,109 are recovered. Brooks has recorded nine deaths.

The City of Lethbridge has two new cases for a total of 49. Of those, 11 are listed as active and 38 recovered. Lethbridge County has four cases, one new active case and three recovered.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day July 7, 2020.”