By Chris Brown

Province-wide COVID hospitalizations below 1,500, 18 new deaths

Feb 17, 2022 | 3:46 PM

There are now 1,491 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 116 of which are in ICU, and 3,822 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 314 confirmed active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Thursday.

Medicine Hat has had 6,806 confirmed total cases – the 314 active, 6,408 recovered and there have been 84 deaths.

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There are 14 new confirmed cases in the city and 51 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, 78.3 per cent have received one dose of vaccine, 74.2 per cent have received two doses and 34.1 per cent have received three doses.

There are 16,551 known active cases in the province, down 1,123 in the past 24 hours, and 498,978 recovered cases in the province, up 1,918.

There have been 28,620 cases of the Omicron variant identified in Alberta, up from 27,986 on Wednesday. Of those, 1,277 cases are in the South Zone.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 519,351.

There are 813 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 4,041 tests in the past 24 hours.

The positivity rate is today is about 20.1 per cent.

Alberta has administered 8,449,280 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

In the last seven days, COVID was the primary or a contributing factor in 69.7 per cent of non-ICU hospitalizations and 86 per cent of ICU admissions.

Among new cases today, 29.1 per cent are unvaccinated, 3.2 per cent have had one dose, 34.2 have had two doses and 33.5 per cent have had three doses.

Among current hospitalizations, 31.5 per cent are unvaccinated, 5 per cent have had one dose, 36.6 per cent have had two doses and 26.9 per cent have had three doses.

Among Alberta’s total population, 80.7 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 75.5 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 1,542 known active cases and 31,180 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 1,126 confirmed cases. There are 31 active cases, 1,089 recovered and six deaths. 70.5 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 66.8 per cent have two doses and 26.2 per cent have had three doses.

The County of Forty Mile has 413 total confirmed cases. There are 15 active cases, 393 recovered and there have been five deaths. 44.1 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 — 47 active cases, 1,535 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 2,605 total confirmed cases — 63 active cases and 2,512 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 30 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 641 confirmed cases — 29 active cases, 603 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 1,049 total confirmed cases. There are 58 active cases, 985 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 11,220 confirmed cases. There are 617 active cases, 10,521 recovered and there have been 82 deaths. Lethbridge County has 2,559 confirmed cases, 113 active cases, 2,425 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. 16, 2022.

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