By Chris Brown

143 new cases in province

No new COVID-19 cases in Medicine Hat

Oct 7, 2020 | 3:39 PM

There is no change in the COVID-19 numbers for Medicine Hat in Wednesday’s update.

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

Province-wide, there are 143 new cases in Wednesday’s online update.

The total number of COVID-19 cases across the province stands at 19,354. There are 1,910 active cases, up 10 from Tuesday, and 17,163 recovered cases, up 133.

There are currently 66 Albertans in hospital, 13 in ICU. There have been 281 deaths, no increase from Tuesday.

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The province conducted 13,610 tests in the past 24 hours.

On Wednesday there are 69 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 1,900 cases in the South Zone. There are 78 active cases and 1,796 recovered. There is currently one COVID-19 case in hospital in the South Zone, which is in the ICU. There have been a total of 26 deaths in the zone.

All 18 new cases in the zone in Wednesday’s update are in Lethbridge or Lethbridge County.

Cypress County has totaled 33 cases – one 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 210 cases. There are 38 active cases, 170 recovered and there have been two deaths. Lethbridge County has 80 cases, 26 active cases and the rest recovered.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day Oct. 6, 2020.”

Saskatchewan reported 10 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, one in the South Zones.

Saskatchewan has a total of 1,994 cases, 138 considered active. There are 1,832 recovered cases and there have been 24 COVID-19 deaths in the province.