Active COVID-19 cases still climbing in Medicine Hat

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 198,653.

There have been 35,980 variant cases ID’d in the province, 966 new today. There are 1,776 in the South Zone.

14,728 active cases (62.3 per cent of total) have been identified as variants of concern.

There are 1,743 total new cases in the province today.

There are now 671 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 150 of which are in ICU, and 2,099 deaths.

The province completed 14,585 tests in the past 24 hours.

The positivity rate is about 12 per cent.

Alberta has administered 1,668,455 of vaccine at the latest update.

Premier Jason Kenney is to address Albertans tonight on new public health measures to try to arrest soaring COVID-19 case rates threatening to overwhelm the province’s hospitals.

CHAT News will carry the announcement live at 6 p.m. and it will also be available at chatnewstoday.ca.

There are 10,823 cases in the South Zone. There are 1,260 active cases and 9,443 recovered. The death total in the zone is at 120.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News on Monday that AHS South Zone currently has 31 COVID-19 positive individuals in hospital. There are 22 at Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge, with four of those in the ICU. Medicine Hat Regional Hospital has eight inpatients. The Cardston Health Centre has one inpatient.

St. Mary’s School has announced five cases of COVID-19 have been identified at the school; it is on AHS Alert status. The school has moved to online learning until May 17.

Alexandra Middle School, CAPE School and Notre Dame Academy have also moved to temporary online learning due to COVID-19 cases. Notre Dame is on AHS Outbreak status and CAPE is on AHS Alert status.

Over the weekend cases were identified at three schools in the Medicine Hat Public School Division – River Heights Elementary School, Crescent Heights High School and Dr. Ken Sauer School.

There are now four cases at River Heights, three at Crescent Heights and two at Ken Sauer.

AHS notified officials late Monday of a new infection at Crestwood school as well, and another new infection was announced on Wednesday morning. The school is on AHS Alert status.

AHS lists River Heights, Crescent Heights, Ken Sauer and Medicine Hat Christian School on Alert status. CAPE School is also on AHS Alert status.

A case of COVID-19 was also identified at Mother Teresa School over the weekend.

Previously, cases have been identified at St. Francis Xavier School and at Ecole St. John Paul II School in the Catholic division.

Prairie Rose Public Schools has announced confirmed cases connected to Bow Island Elementary School and Irvine School. Irvine School is on Outbreak status.

Alberta Health Services also informed Prairie Rose on Tuesday of one case each for Margaret Wooding school in Redcliff and the Burdett school.

They are on Alert status.

There are also positive COVID-19 cases Seven Persons School, which is on Alert status.

Brooks Junior High School, Brooks Composite High School and Christ the King in Brooks are on AHS Outbreak status. Eastbrook Elementary School in that city is on AHS Alert status.

Eagle Butte High School and Connaught School reported cases more than one month ago.

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 1.16 in Calgary Zone, 0.99 in Edmonton Zone and 1.18 in the rest of Alberta. These figures are updated each Monday.

Cypress County has totaled 232 cases – 32 active cases and the rest recovered.

The County of Forty Mile has 149 total cases. There are seven active cases, 139 recovered and there have been three deaths.

The MD of Taber has 516 total cases — 48 active cases, 462 recovered and there have been six deaths.

Special Areas No. 2 has 84 total cases – 11 active cases, 72 recovered and there has been one death.

Brooks has 1,417 total cases — 41 active cases and 1,362 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 14 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 181 cases — seven active cases, 172 recovered and there have been two deaths.

The County of Warner has 357 total cases. There are 116 active cases, 238 are recovered cases and there have been three deaths in the county.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 4,357 cases. There are 442 active cases, 3,879 recovered and there have been 36 deaths. Lethbridge County has 1,043 cases, 164 active cases, 867 recovered and there have been 12 deaths.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day May 3, 2021.”

Saskatchewan has a total of 42,006 cases, 2,305 considered active. There are 39,202 recovered cases and there have been 499 COVID-19 deaths in the province.

Saskatchewan has delivered 460,747 doses of vaccine.

by Chris Brown

Active COVID-19 cases still climbing in Medicine Hat

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