By Chris Brown

18 new cases in city, 1,051 in province

Active COVID-19 cases slowly dropping in city; province-wide hospitalizations down to 1,000

Oct 15, 2021 | 3:42 PM

There are 324 active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Friday.

Medicine Hat has had 4,259 total cases – the 324 active, 3,867 recovered and there have been 68 deaths, one new today.

There are 18 new cases in the city in the past 24 hours and 33 new recoveries.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News on Thursday that there are currently 118 COVID-19 positive inpatients in the South Zone with 25 of those in the ICU. There are 46 inpatients at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with 7 in the ICU. Last Thursday there were 54 inpatients at the local hospital, 11 in ICU.

The same Alberta Health Services spokesperson told CHAT News in early October that Medicine Hat Regional Hospital currently has 13 ICU beds, including 6 surge beds.

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Chinook Regional Hospital has 56 with 18 in the ICU. Brooks Health Centre has five inpatients; Cardston Health Centre has four; Taber Health Centre has three; Pincher Creek Heath Centre has two; and Bow Island Health Centre and Crowsnest Pass Health Centre have one each.

Among Hatters 12 and over, 82.3 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 72.8 per cent are fully vaccinated.

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

There are 12,978 active cases in the province, down 445 from Thursday, and 298,328 recovered cases in the province, up 1,480.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 314,252.

There are 1,051 new cases in the province in the past 24 hours.

There are now 1,000 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 229 of which are in ICU, and 2,946 deaths.

The province completed 14,054 tests in the past 24 hours.

The positivity rate is about 7.5 per cent.

Alberta has administered 6,304,054 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

Among new cases today, 65.9 per cent are unvaccinated, 7.6 per cent are partially vaccinated and 26.4 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Among current hospitalizations, 71.4 per cent are unvaccinated, 5.6 per cent are partially vaccinated and 23 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Province-wide, 85.8 per cent of Albertans 12 years old and up have received at least one dose of vaccine and 76.7 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Among Alberta’s total population, 73 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 65.3 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 1,463 active cases and 19,594 recovered in the South Zone. The death total in the zone is at 236.

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 810 cases. There are 51 active cases, 753 recovered and six deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 63.1 per cent, the two-dose rate is 54.3.

The County of Forty Mile has 314 total cases. There are 38 active cases, 271 recovered and there have been five deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 38 per cent, the two-dose rate is 31.7.

The MD of Taber has 1,174 total cases — 129 active cases, 1,034 recovered and there have been 11 deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 44.9 per cent, the two-dose rate is 38.5.

Special Areas No. 2 has 231 total cases – 24 active cases, 205 recovered and there have been two deaths.

Brooks has 2,053 total cases — 73 active cases and 1,959 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 21 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 436 cases — 35 active cases, 395 recovered and there have been six deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 62.6 per cent, the two-dose rate is 52.9. The Newell numbers include the city of Brooks.

The County of Warner has 695 total cases. There are 59 active cases, 633 are recovered cases and there have been three deaths in the county. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 56.5 per cent, the two-dose rate is 48.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 6,583 cases. There are 403 active cases, 6,130 recovered and there have been 50 deaths. Lethbridge County has 1,797 cases, 112 active cases, 1,669 recovered and there have been 16 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. 14, 2021.”

Saskatchewan has a total of 73,662 cases, 4,364 considered active. There are 68,525 recovered cases and there have been 773 COVID-19 deaths in the province.