Medicine Hat remains at 37 active COVID-19 cases

Across the province, there are 13,628 active cases, up 330 from Thursday, and 94,783 recovered cases, up 829.

Alberta’s total number of COVID-19 cases from the start of the pandemic is 109,652.

There are 1,183 new cases in the province today.

There are now 851 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 135 of which are in ICU, and 1,241 deaths.

The province completed 16,765 tests in the past 24 hours.

The provincial positivity rate is 7.0 per cent.

As of Jan. 7, 37,686 doses of vaccine have been administered in Alberta.

Medicine Hat and the entire province remains in enhanced status, in which risk levels require enhanced public health measures to control the spread and are informed by local context.

Medicine Hat remains on the provincial “Watch” list, though is only three cases above the threshold.

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 37 active cases among 68,057 people puts it at a rate of 54.4.

Cypress County with a rate of 44.6 on five active cases is no longer on the “Watch” list.

Brooks (72.6 rate), The County of Newell (74.1), Lethbridge (86.9) Lethbridge County (142.7) and the MD of Taber (58.3) are also on the list.

The County of Forty Mile is no longer on the “Watch” list.

There are 5,196 cases in the South Zone. There are 262 active cases and 4,870 recovered. According to the provincial reporting site, there are 18 COVID patients in hospital in the zone, three of which are in ICU. The death total in the zone is at 64.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News on Wednesday the South Zone currently has 17 COVID-19 positive individuals in hospital. There are seven at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital, with one of those in the ICU. Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge has eight inpatients, with two of those in the ICU. The Taber Health Centre and Pincher Creek Health Centre have one inpatient each.

On Friday there are 294 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.

In Brooks, an outbreak is listed at Christ the King Academy and Holy Family Academy is on the Watch list.

The website Support Our Students is tracking instances of cases in schools across the province.

Cypress County has totaled 144 cases – five active cases and the rest recovered.

The County of Forty Mile has 115 total cases. There are two active cases, 111 recovered and there have been two deaths.

The MD of Taber has 318 total cases — 11active cases, 301 recovered and there have been six deaths.

Special Areas No. 2 has 37 total cases – three active, 33 recovered and there has been one death.

Brooks has 1,355 total cases — 14 active and 1,327 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 14 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 145 cases — six active cases, 137 recovered and there have been two deaths.

The County of Warner has 147 total cases. There are four active cases, 141 are recovered cases and there have been two deaths in the county.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 1,476 cases. There are 86 active cases, 1,380 recovered and there have been 10 deaths. Lethbridge County has 458 cases, 36 active cases, 415 recovered and there have been seven deaths.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day Jan. 7, 2021.”

Saskatchewan confirmed 336 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday.

Saskatchewan has a total of 17,474 cases, 3,053 considered active. There are 14,237 recovered cases and there have been 184 COVID-19 deaths in the province.

by Chris Brown

Medicine Hat remains at 37 active COVID-19 cases

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