By Chris Brown

93 new cases in city, 4,037 in province

Active COVID-19 cases drop over weekend in Medicine Hat; 11 of 13 ICU beds filled

Oct 4, 2021 | 3:57 PM

There are 574 active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Monday.

Medicine Hat has had 4,022 total cases – the 574 active, 3,389 recovered and there have been 59 deaths, one new over the weekend.

There are 93 new cases in the city since the last update on Friday and 138 new recoveries.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News on Monday that there are currently 130 COVID-19 positive inpatients in the South Zone with 26 of those in the ICU. There are 55 inpatients at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with 11 in the ICU.

The same Alberta Health Services spokesperson told CHAT News Medicine Hat Regional Hospital currently has 13 ICU beds, including 6 surge beds. There are 11 COVID-19 patients in ICU at this time.

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In the entire South Zone, there are currently 36 ICU beds, including 19 additional ICU spaces. South Zone ICU is operating at 83 per cent capacity (including 26 COVID patients in ICU).

Chinook Regional Hospital has 55 with 15 in the ICU. Brooks Health Centre has eight inpatients; Cardston Health Centre has five; Taber Health Centre has three; Pincher Creek Heath Centre has two; and Bow Island Health Centre and the Crowsnest Pass Health Centre have one each.

Provincially, there are 374 ICU beds open, including 201 surge spaces. There are 298 patients in ICU, the vast majority of whom are COVID positive. Provincially, ICU capacity (including additional surge beds) is at 80 per cent.

Among Hatters 12 and over, 80.6 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 70.7 per cent are fully vaccinated.

69.9 per cent of all Hatters have received at least one dose of vaccine at the latest update and 61.4 per cent of Hatters are fully vaccinated.

There are 20,674 active cases in the province, up 459 from Friday, and 280,413 recovered cases in the province, up 3,557.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 303,839.

There are 4,037 new cases in the province since the Friday update.

There are now 1,079 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 257 of which are in ICU, and 2,752 deaths.

The province completed 39,265 tests since the Friday update.

The positivity rate is about 10.3 per cent.

Alberta has administered 6,121,821 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

Among new cases today, 66.2 per cent are unvaccinated, 7.0 per cent are partially vaccinated and 26.8 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Among current hospitalizations, 74.1 per cent are unvaccinated, 4.3 per cent are partially vaccinated and 21.7 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Province-wide, 84.2 per cent of Albertans 12 years old and up have received at least one dose of vaccine and 74.9 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Among Alberta’s total population, 71.6 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 63.7 per cent are fully vaccinated.

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

There are 2,224 active cases and 17,717 recovered in the South Zone. The death total in the zone is at 212.

The province-wide reproductive value for the week of Sept. 27-Oct. 3 is 0.92. It is 0.93 in Calgary Zone, 0.86 in Edmonton Zone and 0.94 in the rest of Alberta.

It’s updated every two weeks. At the last update from Sept. 13-19 the numbers were 1.04 in the province, 0.94 in Calgary Zone, 0.97 in Edmonton Zone and 1.15 in the rest of Alberta.

Cypress County has totaled 773 cases. There are 90 active cases, 678 recovered and five deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 61.4 per cent, the two-dose rate is 52.7.

The County of Forty Mile has 287 total cases. There are 77 active cases, 205 recovered and there have been five deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 36.4 per cent, the two-dose rate is 30.6.

The MD of Taber has 1,067 total cases — 152 active cases, 904 recovered and there have been 11 deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 43.5 per cent, the two-dose rate is 37.4.

Special Areas No. 2 has 217 total cases – 44 active cases, 174 recovered and there have been two deaths.

Brooks has 1,996 total cases — 179 active cases and 1,798 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 19 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 406 cases — 58 active cases, 343 recovered and there have been five deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 60.6 per cent, the two-dose rate is 51.1. The Newell numbers include the city of Brooks.

The County of Warner has 651 total cases. There are 77 active cases, 571 are recovered cases and there have been three deaths in the county. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 55.2 per cent, the two-dose rate is 46.5.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 6,266 cases. There are 487 active cases, 5,734 recovered and there have been 45 deaths. Lethbridge County has 1,713 cases, 182 active cases, 1,517 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 Oct. 3, 2021.”

Saskatchewan has a total of 69,089 cases, 4,635 considered active. There are 63,738 recovered cases and there have been 716 COVID-19 deaths in the province.

The province set new COVID-19 hospitalization and ICU records today.