By Chris Brown

Six new cases in city, 531 in province

Hinshaw: Let’s avoid post-Halloween COVID-19 spike

Oct 28, 2021 | 3:58 PM

With the province seemingly avoiding a spike in COVID-19 cases following Thanksgiving, Dr. Deena Hinshaw wants to be able to say the same after Halloween.

She said following the basic measures – staying home if you’re feeling unwell, trick-or-treating safely and limiting contact with those outside your household – are simple ways to achieve that.

“These simple precautions can be very effective at limiting the spread of COVID 19 if we all do our part,” the chief medical officer of health said during Thursday’s update. “We’ve shown they work time and time again. Let’s make good choices to ensure there’s no Halloween spike two weeks from now.”

Hinshaw also commended Albertans for driving down the fourth wave by getting fully vaccinated and following health measures.

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“The last month has shown how powerful that combination is,” she said.

There are 157 active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Thursday.

Medicine Hat has had 4,409 total cases – the 157 active, 4,177 recovered and there have been 75 deaths.

There are six new cases in the city since Wednesday and 15 new recoveries.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News on Thursday that there are currently 83 COVID-19 positive inpatients in the South Zone with 19 of those in the ICU. There are 26 inpatients at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with 6 in the ICU.

Chinook Regional Hospital has 39 with 13 in the ICU. Cardston Health Centre has seven inpatients; Brooks Health Centre has three; Bow Island Health Centre, St. Michael’s Health Centre and Taber Health Centre have two each; Pincher Creek Heath Centre and Raymond Health Centre have one each.

Among Hatters 12 and over, 83.5 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 76.3 per cent are fully vaccinated.

72.5 per cent of all Hatters have received at least one dose of vaccine at the latest update and 66.2 per cent of Hatters are fully vaccinated.

There are 8,387 active cases in the province, down 346 from Wednesday, and 310,914 recovered cases in the province, up 865.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 322,386.

There are 531 new cases in the province in the past 24 hours.

There are now 779 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 185 of which are in ICU, and 3,085 deaths.

The province completed 10,277 tests in the past 24 hours.

The positivity rate is about 5.2 per cent.

Alberta has administered 6,513,132 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

Among new cases today, 60.1 per cent are unvaccinated, 7.5 per cent are partially vaccinated and 32.4 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Among current hospitalizations, 71.1 per cent are unvaccinated, 5 per cent are partially vaccinated and 23.9 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Province-wide, 86.8 per cent of Albertans 12 years old and up have received at least one dose of vaccine and 79.6 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Among Alberta’s total population, 73.9 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 67.7 per cent are fully vaccinated.

There are a number of local outbreaks listed on AHS website.

There are no local schools on Outbreak status. Five schools in Medicine Hat are on Alert status, as well as two in the surrounding area.

There are 882 active cases and 20,981 recovered in the South Zone. The death total in the zone is at 264.

The province-wide reproductive value for the week of Oct. 11-17 is 0.85. It is 0.88 in Calgary Zone, 0.85 in Edmonton Zone and 0.84 in the rest of Alberta.

It’s updated every two weeks. At the last update from Sept. 27-Oct. 3 the numbers were 0.92 in the province, 0.93 in Calgary Zone, 0.86 in Edmonton Zone and 0.94 in the rest of Alberta.

Cypress County has totaled 827 cases. There are 20 active cases, 801 recovered and six deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 64.5 per cent, the two-dose rate is 57.7.

The County of Forty Mile has 333 total cases. There are 20 active cases, 308 recovered and there have been five deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 39.4 per cent, the two-dose rate is 34.

The MD of Taber has 1,215 total cases — 49 active cases, 1,153 recovered and there have been 13 deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 46 per cent, the two-dose rate is 40.9.

Special Areas No. 2 has 235 total cases – four active cases, 229 recovered and there have been two deaths.

Brooks has 2,073 total cases — 21 active cases and 2,025 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 23 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 463 cases — 26 active cases, 431 recovered and there have been six deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 64.2 per cent, the two-dose rate is 56.1. The Newell numbers include the city of Brooks.

The County of Warner has 742 total cases. There are 48 active cases, 690 are recovered cases and there have been four deaths in the county. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 57.5 per cent, the two-dose rate is 50.7.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 6,856 cases. There are 289 active cases, 6,510 recovered and there have been 57 deaths. Lethbridge County has 1,887 cases, 94 active cases, 1,775 recovered and there have been 18 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. 27, 2021.”

Saskatchewan has a total of 77,067 cases, 2,398 considered active. There are 73,826 recovered cases and there have been 843 COVID-19 deaths in the province.