By Chris Brown

Case count rising in Lethbridge area

No change in Medicine Hat, 276 new COVID-19 cases in Alberta

Oct 6, 2020 | 3:35 PM

Medicine Hat remains at two active cases of COVID-19.

The city has total cases 83 – the two active, 79 recovered and there have been two deaths.

There are 276 new cases across the province in Tuesday’s online update. According to the government data, this is the highest one-day total of confirmed cases since late April.

The total number of COVID-19 cases across the province stands at 19,211. There are 1,900 active cases, up 117 from Monday, and 17,030 recovered cases, up 158.

There are currently 61 Albertans in hospital, 13 in ICU. There have been 281 deaths, an increase of one from Monday.

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The province conducted 17,654 tests in the past 24 hours.

On Tuesday there are 66 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. Elm Street School and Herald School were added to the list on Oct. 5, and Ecole St. John Paul II, has been on it since late August.

There 1,882 cases in the South Zone There are 61 active cases and 1,795 recovered. There is currently one COVID-19 case in hospital in the South Zone, which is in the ICU. There has been one more death in the zone, for a total of 26.

Since Friday there have been 52 new cases in the South Zone. Most of them are in Lethbridge and Lethbridge County, which have 26 and 23 new cases, respectively.

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

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

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

Special Areas No. 2 has 15 total cases, two active cases and the rest recovered.

Brooks has 1,132 total cases —1,120 are recovered and three are active. Brooks has recorded nine deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 33 cases — one active case, 30 recovered and there have been two deaths.

The County of Warner has 63 total cases. There are zero active cases, 62 are recovered cases and there has been one death in the county.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 201 cases. There are 29 active cases, 170 recovered and there have been two deaths. Lethbridge County has 71 cases, 17 active cases and the rest recovered.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day Oct. 5, 2020.”

Saskatchewan reported 16 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, two in the South Zones. The location of one infection remains pending.

Saskatchewan has a total of 1,984 cases, 139 considered active. There are 1,821 recovered cases and there have been 24 COVID-19 deaths in the province.