By Chris Brown

153 new cases province-wide

Active COVID-19 cases in Medicine Hat still at four, no new cases

Sep 30, 2020 | 3:38 PM

Medicine Hat has gone more than one week without any new cases of COVID-19.

The city’s count remains at 82, and the number of active cases is still at four, according to Wednesday’s online update. There are 76 recovered cases in the city and there have been two deaths.

There are 153 new cases across the province on Wednesday.

The total number of COVID-19 cases across the province stands at 18,062. There are 1,582 active cases, up 11 from Tuesday, and 16,213 recovered cases, up 141.

There are currently 64 Albertans in hospital, 13 in ICU. There have been 267 deaths, up one from Tuesday.

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The province conducted 14,071 tests in the past 24 hours.

On Wednesday there are 50 schools in the province where outbreaks have been declared. Alberta Health’s threshold for declaring an outbreak in school is two cases being in a school while infectious within 14 days.

No local schools are classified as having outbreaks on the provincial website.

The website Support Our Students is tracking instances of cases in schools across the province. The only local school on the list remains Ecole St. John Paul II, which was added in late August.

There is one new case in the South Zone, for a total of 1,829 cases. There are 37 active cases and 1,767 recovered. There are currently five COVID-19 cases in hospital in the South Zone, two in the ICU, and the zone total remains at 25 deaths.

Cypress County has totaled 33 cases – two active and the rest recovered.

The County of Forty Mile has 40 total cases. There are 11 active cases and the rest are recovered.

The MD of Taber has 44 total cases — four active cases and the rest recovered.

Special Areas No. 2 has 13 total cases, all of which are recovered.

Brooks has 1,132 total cases —1,119 are recovered and four are active. Brooks has recorded nine deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 32 cases — 30 recovered and there have been two deaths.

The County of Warner has 63 total cases. There is one active case, 61 are recovered cases and there has been one death in the county.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 174 cases. There are five active cases, 167 recovered and there have been two deaths. Lethbridge County has 48 cases, three active cases and the rest recovered.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day Sept. 29, 2020.”

Saskatchewan reported 14 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, none in the South Zones.

Saskatchewan has a total of 1,913 cases, 139 considered active. There are 1,750 recovered cases and there have been 24 COVID-19 deaths in the province.