By Chris Brown

31 new cases in city, 920 in province

One new COVID-19 death in Medicine Hat, active cases down

Aug 31, 2021 | 3:41 PM

There are 528 active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Tuesday.

Medicine Hat has had 2,422 total cases – the 528 active, 1,865 recovered and there have been 29 deaths, one new today.

There are 31 new cases in the city in the past 24 hours and 46 new recoveries.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News on Monday that there are currently 49 COVID-19 positive inpatients in the South Zone with 13 of those in the ICU. There are 22 inpatients at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with five in the ICU. MHRH has 10 ICU beds.

Chinook Regional Hospital has 20 with eight in the ICU. Cardston Health Centre has four inpatients, Pincher Creek Health Centre has two and Crowsnest Pass Health Centre has one.

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Among Hatters 12 and over, 72.7 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 65.8 per cent are fully vaccinated.

63.2 per cent of all Hatters have received at least one dose of vaccine at the latest update and 57.1 per cent of Hatters are fully vaccinated.

There are 11,660 active cases in the province, up 234 from Monday, and 238,895 recovered cases in the province, up 682.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 252,930.

There are 920 new cases in the province in the past 24 hours, and 2,268 more variant of concern cases have been identified.

There are now 431 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 106 of which are in ICU, and 2,375 deaths.

The province completed 7,487 tests in the past 24 hours.

The positivity rate is about 12.3 per cent.

Alberta has administered 5,559,321 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

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Among new cases today, 73.2 per cent are unvaccinated, 6.9 per cent are partially vaccinated and 19.8 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Among current hospitalizations, 79.4 per cent are unvaccinated, 3.5 per cent are partially vaccinated and 17.2 per cent are fully vaccinated.

The number of local outbreaks listed on AHS website has been rising across the city in the past weeks.

Outbreaks are currently listed at two childcare facilities – Building Blocks Childcare in Medicine Hat and IF Cox Kindercare Program in Redcliff. An outbreak at Iron Horse Energy Services was added on Aug. 27.

Outbreaks have been declared at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital and a handful of other health-care facilities.

The city has the fourth-highest cases rate per 100,000 people at 775.2. The ID of Wood Buffalo has the highest rate at 26,234.4. There are 154 active cases among the small population of just 587 people.

Province-wide, 78 per cent of Albertans 12 years old and up have received at least one dose of vaccine and 69.8 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Among Alberta’s total population, 66.3 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 59.4 per cent are fully vaccinated.

There are 1,214 active cases and 13,486 recovered in the South Zone. The death total in the zone is at 147.

The province-wide reproductive value for the week of Aug. 16-22 is 1.19. It is 1.05 in Calgary Zone, 1.32 in Edmonton Zone and 1.22 in the rest of Alberta.

It’s updated every two weeks. At the last update from Aug. 2-8 the numbers were 1.25 province-wide, 1.09 in Calgary Zone, 1.41 in Edmonton Zone and 1.41 in the rest of Alberta.

Cypress County has totaled 495 cases. There are 86 active cases, 408 recovered and one death. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 54.4 per cent, the two-dose rate is 48.3. The county has the fifth-highest case rate per 100,000 people at 761.2.

The County of Forty Mile has 173 total cases. There are 12 active cases, 158 recovered and there have been three deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 31.5 per cent, the two-dose rate is 28.1.

The MD of Taber has 647 total cases — 57 active cases, 584 recovered and there have been six deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 38.4 per cent, the two-dose rate is 34.8.

Special Areas No. 2 has 121 total cases – eight active cases, 112 recovered and there has been one death.

Brooks has 1,623 total cases — 65 active cases and 1,543 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 15 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 287 cases — 27 active cases, 257 recovered and there have been three deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 52.9 per cent, the two-dose rate is 46.6. The Newell numbers include the city of Brooks.

The County of Warner has 491 total cases. There are 16 active cases, 472 are recovered cases and there have been three deaths in the county. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 48.4 per cent, the two-dose rate is 42.7.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 5,199 cases. There are 199 active cases, 4,960 recovered and there have been 40 deaths. Lethbridge County has 1,345 cases, 44 active cases, 1,287 recovered and there have been 14 deaths.

Not all the areas on the vaccination data map match the case count map.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day Aug. 30, 2021.”

Saskatchewan has a total of 54,367 cases, 2,204 considered active. There are 51,560 recovered cases and there have been 603 COVID-19 deaths in the province.