By Chris Brown

More than 1,100 COVID patients in hospital in Alberta

Jan 19, 2022 | 4:13 PM

There are now 1,101 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 108 of which are in ICU, and 3,413 deaths.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News Tuesday that there are currently 34 COVID-19 positive inpatients in the South Zone with seven of those in the ICU. There are seven inpatients at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with three COVID-19 positive patients in the ICU.

Chinook Regional Hospital has 22 inpatients with four in the ICU. Brooks Health Centre has two inpatients; and Cardston Health Centre has one.

In a Twitter thread, Dr. Deena Hinshaw reminded people of how severe the Omicron variant can be for some people

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“You cannot predict how far your infection will spread through others through an ongoing chain of transmission, or who it will reach. Unfortunately, at some point, it will likely reach someone for whom COVID-19 is not a mild illness.”

There are 600 confirmed active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Wednesday.

Medicine Hat has had 5,680 total cases – the 600 active, 5,001 recovered and there have been 79 deaths.

There are 52 new cases in the city and 62 new recoveries in the past 24 hours.

With the province limiting testing in the fifth wave, these confirmed cases do not accurately reflect the number of cases in the community.

Among all Medicine Hat residents, 77.7 per cent have received one dose of vaccine, 72.5 per cent have received two doses and 30 per cent have received three doses.

There are 67,534 known active cases in the province, down 2,689 in the past 24 hours, and 388,550 recovered cases in the province, up 6,525.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 459,497.

There are 3,837 new cases confirmed in the province in the past 24 hours.

Again these are only the confirmed cases and do not accurately reflect the number of cases in the province.

The province completed 10,005 tests in the past 24 hours.

The positivity rate is about 38.4 per cent.

Alberta has administered 8,071,666 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

Among new cases today, 19 per cent are unvaccinated, 4.6 per cent have had one dose, 58.7 have had two doses and 17.7 per cent have had three doses.

Among current hospitalizations, 32.6 per cent are unvaccinated, 4.5 per cent have had one dose, 41.9 have had two doses and 21 per cent have had three doses.

Among Alberta’s total population, 80.2 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 73.6 per cent have received two doses 29.9 per cent have received three doses.

There are four city outbreaks listed on AHS website, two in Brooks and one in Oyen.

There are 3,028 active cases and 24,896 recovered in the South Zone. The death total in the zone is at 298.

The province-wide reproductive value for the week of Jan. 10-16 is 1.00. It is 1.04 in Calgary Zone, 0.96 in Edmonton Zone and 0.98 in the rest of Alberta.

At the last update from Dec. 27-Jan. 2, the numbers were 1.35 in the province, 1.34 in Calgary Zone, 1.30 in Edmonton Zone and 1.54 in the rest of Alberta.

Cypress County has totaled 982 confirmed cases. There are 64 active cases, 912 recovered and six deaths. 70.1 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 65.6 per cent have two doses and 22.1 per cent have had three doses.

The County of Forty Mile has 379 total confirmed cases. There are 20 active cases, 354 recovered and there have been five deaths. 43.4 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 40.3 per cent have two doses and 13.8 per cent have had three doses.

The MD of Taber has 1,439 total confirmed cases — 79 active cases, 1,340 recovered and there have been 18 deaths. 50.8 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 47.3 per cent have two doses and 17.2 per cent have had three doses.

Special Areas No. 2 has 309 total confirmed cases – 16 active cases, 288 recovered and there have been three deaths.

Brooks has 2,383 total cases — 217 active cases and 2,142 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 24 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 574 cases — 33 active cases, 533 recovered and there have been eight deaths. 70.1 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 64.6 per cent have two doses and 19.1 per cent have had three doses. County of Newell vaccination numbers include Brooks and part of Special Areas No. 2.

The County of Warner has 887 total cases. There are 55 active cases, 827 are recovered cases and there have been five deaths in the county. 62.9 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 57.5 per cent have two doses and 20.1 per cent have had three doses.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 9,405 cases. There are 1,363 active cases, 7,975 recovered and there have been 67 deaths. Lethbridge County has 2,249 cases, 143 active cases, 2,086 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. 18, 2022.

Saskatchewan has a total of 103,901 cases, 11,894 considered active. There are 91,046 recovered cases and there have been 961 COVID-19 deaths in the province.