By Chris Brown

Eight new COVID cases in city

522 Omicron cases among 1,346 new COVID-19 cases in Alberta

Dec 22, 2021 | 4:08 PM

There are 46 active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Wednesday.

Medicine Hat has had 4,646 total cases – the 46 active, 4,522 recovered and there have been 78 deaths.

There are eight new cases in the city in the past 24 hours and one new recovery.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News Tuesday that there are currently 18 COVID-19 positive inpatients in the South Zone with two of those in the ICU. There are two inpatients at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with no COVID-19 positive patients in the ICU.

Chinook Regional Hospital has 13 inpatients with two in the ICU. Cardston Health Centre has one inpatient.

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There have been 2,131 cases of the Omicron variant identified in Alberta, up from 1,609 in Tuesday’s update. Twenty-five of those cases are in the South Zone.

Among Hatters five years old and over, 80.6 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 75.4 per cent are fully vaccinated.

76.6 per cent of all Hatters have received at least one dose of vaccine at the latest update and 71.6 per cent of Hatters are fully vaccinated.

There are 7,065 active cases in the province, up 1,020 from Tuesday, and 334,716 recovered cases in the province, up 321.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 345,080.

There are 1,346 new cases in the province in the past 24 hours.

There are now 326 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 65 of which are in ICU, and 3,299 deaths.

The province completed 11,516 tests in the past 24 hours.

The positivity rate is about 11.7 per cent.

Alberta has administered 7,400,284 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

Among new cases today, 18.3 per cent are unvaccinated, 0.7 per cent are partially vaccinated and 80.9 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Among current hospitalizations, 60.7 per cent are unvaccinated, 3.7 per cent are partially vaccinated and 35.6 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Province-wide, 83.8 per cent of Albertans five years old and up have received at least one dose of vaccine and 77.3 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Among Alberta’s total population, 78.8 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 72.6 per cent are fully vaccinated.

There are no local outbreaks listed on AHS website.

There are no local schools on Outbreak status. One school in Medicine Hat is on Alert status, and there are none in the surrounding area.

There are 223 active cases and 23,053 recovered in the South Zone. The death total in the zone is at 290.

The province-wide reproductive value for the weeks of Nov. 29-Dec. 12 is 0.96. It is 0.90 in Calgary Zone, 0.99 in Edmonton Zone and 0.93 in the rest of Alberta.

It’s updated every two weeks. At the last update from Nov. 15-28, the numbers were 0.88 in the province, 0.90 in Calgary Zone, 0.95 in Edmonton Zone and 0.80 in the rest of Alberta.

Cypress County has totaled 878 cases. There are 12 active cases, 860 recovered and six deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 69.2 per cent, the two-dose rate is 64.7.

The County of Forty Mile has 345 total cases. There are no active cases, 340 recovered and there have been five deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 42.6 per cent, the two-dose rate is 39.5.

The MD of Taber has 1,312 total cases — 10 active cases, 1,284 recovered and there have been 18 deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 50 per cent, the two-dose rate is 46.3.

Special Areas No. 2 has 276 total cases – eight active cases, 264 recovered and there have been three deaths.

Brooks has 2,108 total cases — five active cases and 2,079 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 24 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 529 cases — 13 active cases, 508 recovered and there have been eight deaths. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 68.7 per cent, the two-dose rate is 63.5. The Newell numbers include the city of Brooks and part of Special Areas No. 2.

The County of Warner has 799 total cases. There are four active cases, 791 are recovered cases and there have been four deaths in the county. The latest one-dose vaccination rate for all ages is 62 per cent, the two-dose rate is 56.5.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 7,326 cases. There are 88 active cases, 7,176 recovered and there have been 62 deaths. Lethbridge County has 2,023 cases, 23 active cases, 1,980 recovered and there have been 19 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 Dec. 21, 2021.”

Saskatchewan has a total of 82,442 cases, 627 considered active. There are 80,871 recovered cases and there have been 944 COVID-19 deaths in the province.