By Chris Brown

773 new cases in province

One more active COVID-19 case in Medicine Hat

Nov 17, 2020 | 3:42 PM

Medicine Hat now has 51 active cases of COVID-19 after two new cases were reported in Tuesday’s online update.

The city has 154 total cases. There are 101 recovered cases and there have been two deaths in addition to the active cases.

Across the province, there are 773 new cases on Tuesday. Alberta has 10,068 active cases, up 37 since Monday, and 30,462 recovered cases, up 731.

There are now 268 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 57 of which are in ICU, and 432 deaths.

There have been a total of 40,962 cases in Alberta over the course of the pandemic.

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Exact testing numbers remain unavailable due to outstanding technical issues with the province’s reporting site.

Medicine Hat was placed on the provincial “Watch” list on Friday and remains there.

Regions are placed on the province’s “Watch” list when they have a rate of more than 50 active cases per 100,000 population. Medicine Hat’s 51 active cases among 68,057 people puts it at a rate of 74.9.

Cypress County with a rate of 356.6 on 40 active cases and the County of Forty Mile with a rate of 465.6 on 30 active cases are also on the list.

Brooks (165.8 rate), the County of Newell (308.9), Lethbridge (175.8) Lethbridge County (273.5) and the MD of Taber (402.9) are also on the list.

There are 3,149 cases in the South Zone. There are 548 active cases and 2,565 recovered. There are currently 19 COVID-19 cases in hospital in the South Zone, five in the ICU. The death total in the zone is at 36.

On Tuesday there are 170 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.

Eastbrook Elementary School in Brooks is on the school “Watch” list.

Medicine Hat High School and Crestwood School in Medicine Hat, Brooks Junior High School and Bassano School are currently on the outbreak list.

The website Support Our Students is tracking instances of cases in schools across the province. There have been no new local updates other than the third case at Hat High.

Cypress County has totaled 87 cases – 40 active cases and the rest recovered.

The County of Forty Mile has 88 total cases. There are 30 active cases, 57 recovered and there is one new death.

The MD of Taber has 142 total cases — 76 active cases, 65 recovered and there has been one death.

Special Areas No. 2 has 17 total cases – all recovered.

Brooks has 1,236 total cases — 32 active and 1,193 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 11 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 86 cases — 25 active cases, 59 recovered and there have been two deaths.

The County of Warner has 85 total cases. There are 11 active cases, 73 are recovered cases and there has been one death in the county.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 782 cases. There are 174 active cases, 601 recovered and there have been seven deaths. Lethbridge County has 253 cases, 69 active cases, 183 recovered and there has been one death.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day Nov. 16, 2020.”

Saskatchewan confirmed 240 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, 43 in the South Zones.

Saskatchewan has a total of 5,422 cases, 2,055 considered active. There are 3,336 recovered cases and there have been 31 COVID-19 deaths in the province.

On Tuesday, the province announced it is reducing the number of people allowed to gather inside a home to five from 10 and making masks mandatory in public areas provincewide to stem the rise in COVID-19 cases.