By Chris Brown

Provincial total just short of 20,000

Medicine Hat stays at three active COVID-19 cases

Oct 9, 2020 | 3:38 PM

Medicine Hat remains at 84 total cases of COVID-19. There are three active, 79 are recovered and there have been two deaths.

Province-wide, there are 277 new cases in Friday’s online update. That’s nearly 100 less than on Thursday when there were 364, which was the highest one-day count of the pandemic.

The total number of COVID-19 cases across the province stands at 19,995. There are 2,225 active cases, up 128 from Thursday, and 17,488 recovered cases, up 150.

There are currently 86 Albertans in hospital, 11 in ICU. There have been 282 deaths.

The province conducted 25,383 tests in the past 24 hours.

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On Friday there are 76 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 1,926 cases in the South Zone. There are 102 active cases and 1,798 recovered. There are currently three COVID-19 cases in hospital in the South Zone, one is in the ICU. There have been a total of 26 deaths in the zone.

Cypress County has totaled 33 cases – all recovered.

The County of Forty Mile has 42 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 64 total cases. There are two active cases, 61 are recovered cases and there has been one death in the county.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 222 cases. There are 49 active cases, 171 recovered and there have been two deaths. Lethbridge County has 90 cases, 37 active cases and the rest recovered.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day Oct. 8, 2020.”

Saskatchewan reported 22 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, two in the South Zones.

Saskatchewan has a total of 2,034 cases, 139 considered active. There are 1,871 recovered cases and there have been 24 COVID-19 deaths in the province.