Medicine Hat has four active cases, 82 recovered and there have been two deaths.
Medicine Hat recorded one new case of COVID-19 on a day the province counted a record 406 cases.
The total number of COVID-19 cases across the province stands at 23,402. There are 3,372 active cases, up 169 from Tuesday, and 19,734 recovered, up 234.
There are currently 113 Albertans in hospital, 16 in ICU. There have been 296 deaths, an increase of three from Tuesday.
The province conducted 14,904 tests in the past 24 hours
With a rate of more than 50 active cases per 100,000 people, Brooks is now on the provincial “Watch” list; Brooks’ rate is 77.7.
Lethbridge and Lethbridge County are also both on the “Watch” list at 148.5 and 71.3, respectively.
On Wednesday there are 98 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. Taber’s W.R. Myers High School, added on Oct. 21, is the closest outbreak to Medicine Hat.
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. No other city schools are on the list.
There 2,139 cases in the South Zone There are 203 active cases and 1,909 recovered. There are currently three COVID-19 cases in hospital in the South Zone, two in the ICU. The total number of deaths in the zone is 27.
Cypress County has totaled 36 cases – three active cases and the rest recovered.
The County of Forty Mile has 44 total cases. There are three active cases and the rest are recovered.
The MD of Taber has 46 total cases — two active cases and the rest recovered.
Special Areas No. 2 has 17 total cases, two active cases and the rest recovered.
Brooks has 1,146 total cases — 15 active and 1,122 are recovered. Brooks has recorded nine deaths.
The County of Newell has a total of 39 cases — six active cases, 31 recovered and there have been two deaths.
The County of Warner has 65 total cases. There is one active case, 62 are recovered cases and there have been two deaths in the county.
The City of Lethbridge has a total of 379 cases. There are 147 active cases, 230 recovered and there have been two deaths. Lethbridge County has 112 cases, 18 active cases, 93 recovered and there has been one death.
The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day Oct. 20, 2020.”
Saskatchewan reported 57 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, none in the South Zones.
Saskatchewan has a total of 2,496 cases, 469 considered active. There are 2,002 recovered cases and there have been 25 COVID-19 deaths in the province.
