By Chris Brown

55 new cases in city, 4,704 in province

Provincial COVID-19 hospitalizations jump by 70; Medicine Hat over 600 active cases

Jan 11, 2022 | 4:24 PM

There are 601 active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Tuesday.

Medicine Hat has had 5,350 total cases – the 601 active, 4,671 recovered and there have been 78 deaths.

There are 55 new cases in the city and 36 new recoveries in the past 24 hours.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News Tuesday that there are currently 28 COVID-19 positive inpatients in the South Zone with four of those in the ICU. There are five inpatients at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with two COVID-19 positive patients in the ICU.

Chinook Regional Hospital has 18 inpatients with two in the ICU. Brooks Health Centre, Crowsnest Pass Health Centre and Pincher Creek Health Centre have one inpatient each.

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There have been 15,221 cases of the Omicron variant identified in Alberta, up from 14,078 Monday. Of those, 330 cases are in the South Zone.

Among Hatters five years old and over, 81.5 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 75.9 per cent have received two doses.

77.4 per cent of all Hatters have received at least one dose of vaccine at the latest update.

There are 58,613 active cases in the province, up 1,281 in the past 24 hours, and 355,568 recovered cases in the province, up 3,415.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 417,533.

There are 4,704 new cases in the province in the past 24 hours.

There are now 708 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 80 of which are in ICU, and 3,352 deaths.

The province completed 12,201 tests in the past 24 hours.

The positivity rate is about 38.6 per cent.

Alberta has administered 7,927,682 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

Among new cases today, 19.6 per cent are unvaccinated, 1.8 per cent are partially vaccinated and 78.6 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Among current hospitalizations, 37.3 per cent are unvaccinated, 5.1 per cent are partially vaccinated and 57.6 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Province-wide, 84.9 per cent of Albertans five years old and up have received at least one dose of vaccine and 77.9 per cent have received two doses and 28.3 per cent have received three doses.

Among Alberta’s total population, 79.7 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 73.2 per cent have received two doses 26.6 per cent have received three doses.

There are three city outbreaks listed on AHS website and one in Brooks.

There are 2,446 active cases and 23,640 recovered in the South Zone. The death total in the zone is at 293.

The province-wide reproductive value for the week of Dec. 27-Jan 2 is 1.35. It is 1.34 in Calgary Zone, 1.30 in Edmonton Zone and 1.54 in the rest of Alberta.

At the last update from Nov. 29-Dec. 12, the numbers were 0.96 in the province, 0.90 in Calgary Zone, 0.99 in Edmonton Zone and 0.93 in the rest of Alberta.

Cypress County has totaled 944 cases. There are 57 active cases, 881 recovered and six deaths. 73.9 per cent of those five years old and up have at least one dose of vaccine, 69.1 have two doses.

The County of Forty Mile has 369 total cases. There are 20 active cases, 344 recovered and there have been five deaths. 47.9 per cent of those five years old and up have at least one dose of vaccine, 44.3 have two doses.

The MD of Taber has 1,380 total cases — 61 active cases, 1,301 recovered and there have been 18 deaths. 55.1 per cent of those five years old and up have at least one dose of vaccine, 51.3 have two doses

Special Areas No. 2 has 301 total cases – 19 active cases, 277 recovered and there have been three deaths.

Brooks has 2,219 total cases — 104 active cases and 2,091 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 24 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 547 cases — 13 active cases, 526 recovered and there have been eight deaths. 74.7 per cent of those five years old and up have at least one dose of vaccine, 69 have two doses The Newell numbers include the city of Brooks and part of Special Areas No. 2.

The County of Warner has 855 total cases. There are 52 active cases, 799 are recovered cases and there have been four deaths in the county. 67.5 per cent of those five years old and up have at least one dose of vaccine, 61.6 have two doses

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 8,593 cases. There are 1,101 active cases, 7,427 recovered and there have been 65 deaths. Lethbridge County has 2,159 cases, 108 active cases, 2,031 recovered and there have been 20 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 Jan. 10, 2022.

Saskatchewan has a total of 94,080 cases, 8,229 considered active. There are 84,890 recovered cases and there have been 961 COVID-19 deaths in the province.