By Chris Brown

12 new cases in city, 1,616 in province

Medicine Hat tops 100 active COVID-19 cases again

Apr 16, 2021 | 3:53 PM

There are 103 active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Friday.

Medicine Hat now has had 707 total cases – the 103 active, 587 recovered and there have been 17 deaths.

There are 12 new cases in the city and five new recoveries today.

Across the province, there are 16,759 active cases, up 536 from Thursday, and 149,000 recovered cases, up 1,080.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 167,793.

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There have been 14,850 variant cases ID’d in the province, 898 new today. There are 782 in the South Zone.

8,967 active cases (53.5 per cent of total) have been identified as variants of concern.

There are 1,616 total new cases in the province today.

There are now 423 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 93 of which are in ICU, and 2,034 deaths.

The province completed 16,876 tests in the past 24 hours.

The positivity rate is about 9.6 per cent.

Alberta has administered 1,082,391 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s next update will be early next week.

There are 9,241 cases in the South Zone. There are 928 active cases and 8,203 recovered. The death total in the zone is at 110.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News on Thursday that AHS South Zone currently has 29 COVID-19 positive individuals in hospital. There are 24 at Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge, with five of those in the ICU. Medicine Hat Regional Hospital has three inpatients, including one in the ICU. The Cardston Health Centre and Taber Health Centre have one inpatient each.

St. Michael’s School remains on AHS Outbreak status after reporting five cases in late March.

Positive COVID-19 cases have been connected to Medicine Hat’s River Heights School and Seven Persons School and Irvine School in Cypress County.

Ecole Connaught School has confirmed two variant cases. The first case was identified on March 31, the second on April 3.

Sixty-nine students from Eagle Butte High School are quarantining after a positive case was confirmed at the school last week. The individual was confirmed this week to have a variant strain of the virus.

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

The province-wide reproductive value from last week is 1.12. It is 1.08 in Calgary Zone, 1.18 in Edmonton Zone and 1.13 in the rest of Alberta. These figures are updated each Monday.

Cypress County has totaled 186 cases – 29 active cases and the rest recovered.

The County of Forty Mile has 134 total cases. There are four active cases, 127 recovered and there have been three deaths.

The MD of Taber has 449 total cases — 35 active cases, 408 recovered and there have been six deaths.

Special Areas No. 2 has 73 total cases – eight active cases, 64 recovered and there has been one death.

Brooks has 1,376 total cases — nine active cases and 1,353 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 14 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 172 cases — 10 active cases, 160 recovered and there have been two deaths.

The County of Warner has 222 total cases. There are 41 active cases, 178 are recovered cases and there have been three deaths in the county.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 3,758 cases. There are 478 active cases, 3,248 recovered and there have been 32 deaths. Lethbridge County has 838 cases, 127 active cases, 702 recovered and there have been nine deaths.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day April 15, 2021.”

Saskatchewan has a total of 37,615 cases, 2,603 considered active. There are 34,550 recovered cases and there have been 462 COVID-19 deaths in the province.

Saskatchewan has delivered 323,573 doses of vaccine.