By Chris Brown

Known cases in city down to 351

COVID positivity rate just above 21 per cent, hospitalizations keep dropping

Feb 16, 2022 | 4:02 PM

There are now 1,500 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 121 of which are in ICU, and 3,804 deaths.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News Tuesday that there are currently 89 COVID-19 positive inpatients in the South Zone with seven of those in the ICU. There are 27 inpatients at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with two COVID-19 positive patients in the ICU.

Chinook Regional Hospital has 41 inpatients with five in the ICU. Brooks Health Centre, Cardston Health Centre, Pincher Creek Health Centre and Taber Health Centre have three inpatients each; Bassano Health Centre and Big Country Hospital have one each.

There are 351 confirmed active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Wednesday.

Medicine Hat has had 6,792 confirmed total cases – the 351 active, 6,357 recovered and there have been 84 deaths.

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There are 18 new confirmed cases in the city and 66 new recoveries reported today.

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, 78.2 per cent have received one dose of vaccine, 74.1 per cent have received two doses and 34 per cent have received three doses.

There are 17,674 known active cases in the province, down 1,376 in the past 24 hours, and 497,060 recovered cases in the province, up 2,250.

There have been 27,986 cases of the Omicron variant identified in Alberta, up from 27,517 on Tuesday. Of those, 1,184 cases are in the South Zone.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 518,538.

There are 888 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 4,117 tests in the past 24 hours.

The positivity rate is today is about 21.5 per cent.

Alberta has administered 8,443,567 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

In the last seven days, COVID was the primary or a contributing factor in 68.6 per cent of non-ICU hospitalizations and 85.2 per cent of ICU admissions.

Among new cases today, 29.5 per cent are unvaccinated, 2.3 per cent have had one dose, 34.2 have had two doses and 34 per cent have had three doses.

Among current hospitalizations, 30.8 per cent are unvaccinated, 5.5 per cent have had one dose, 36.3 per cent have had two doses and 27.3 per cent have had three doses.

Among Alberta’s total population, 80.7 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 75.4 per cent have received two doses 34.8 per cent have received three doses.

There are 11 city outbreaks listed on the AHS website, including the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital and Medicine Hat Remand Centre. There are three listed outbreaks in Brooks, three in Taber and two in Oyen.

There are 1,682 known active cases and 30,956 recovered in the South Zone. The death total in the zone is at 334.

The province-wide reproductive value for the week of Jan. 31-Feb. 13 is 0.76. It is 0.72 in Calgary Zone, 0.78 in Edmonton Zone and 0.79 in the rest of Alberta.

At the last update from Jan. 24-30, the numbers were 1.00 in the province, 1.04 in Calgary Zone, 0.96 in Edmonton Zone and 0.98 in the rest of Alberta.

Cypress County has totaled 1,123 confirmed cases. There are 38 active cases, 1,079 recovered and six deaths. 70.5 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 66.8 per cent have two doses and 26.1 per cent have had three doses.

The County of Forty Mile has 413 total confirmed cases. There are 19 active cases, 389 recovered and there have been five deaths. 44 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 40.9 per cent have two doses and 16.3 per cent have had three doses.

The MD of Taber has 1,600 total confirmed cases — 56 active cases, 1,526 recovered and there have been 18 deaths. 51.3 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 48.5 per cent have two doses and 19.7 per cent have had three doses.

Special Areas No. 2 has 338 total confirmed cases – 12 active cases, 321 recovered and there have been five deaths.

Brooks has 2,600 total confirmed cases — 63 active cases and 2,507 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 30 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 641 confirmed cases — 34 active cases, 598 recovered and there have been nine deaths. 70.7 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 66.1 per cent have two doses and 23.1 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 1,046 total confirmed cases. There are 59 active cases, 981 are recovered cases and there have been five deaths in the county. 63.5 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 58.6 per cent have two doses and 22.5 per cent have had three doses.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 11,190 confirmed cases. There are 670 active cases, 10,438 recovered and there have been 82 deaths. Lethbridge County has 2,551 confirmed cases, 119 active cases, 2,411 recovered and there have been 21 deaths.

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

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 Feb. 15, 2022.

Beginning on Feb. 7, Saskatchewan is only updating its data on Thursdays. Data can be found here.