By Chris Brown

Alberta confirms more than 1,100 new COVID-19 cases over weekend

Mar 7, 2022 | 4:24 PM

The number of Albertans in hospital with COVID-19 and the number of known active cases in Medicine Hat continue to trend downward.

There are now 1,103 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 77 of which are in ICU, and 3,972 deaths.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News Friday that there are currently 91 COVID-19 positive inpatients in the South Zone with four of those in the ICU. There are 27 inpatients at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with one COVID-19 positive patient in the ICU.

Chinook Regional Hospital has 42 inpatients with three in the ICU. Brooks Health Centre has four inpatients; Taber Health Centre has three; Cardston Health Centre has two; Bassano Health Centre, Crowsnest Pass Health Centre, and Raymond Health Centre have one each.

There are 138 confirmed active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Monday.

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Medicine Hat has had 6,987 confirmed total cases – the 138 active, 6,761 recovered and there have been 88 deaths.

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, 78.4 per cent have received one dose of vaccine, 74.6 per cent have received two doses and 34.6 per cent have received three doses.

There are 7,158 known active cases in the province and 517,587 recovered cases.

There have been 36,580 cases of the Omicron variant identified in Alberta. Of those, 2,102 cases are in the South Zone.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 528,717.

There are 1,113 new cases confirmed in the province since the Friday update.

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

The province completed 6,182 tests since Friday.

The positivity rate for the period is about 18 per cent.

Alberta has administered 8,518,560 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

In the last seven days, COVID was the primary or a contributing factor in 68 per cent of non-ICU hospitalizations and 84.7 per cent of ICU admissions.

Among new cases today, 27.6 per cent are unvaccinated, 2.8 per cent have had one dose, 28.7 have had two doses and 40.9 per cent have had three doses.

Among current hospitalizations, 29.7 per cent are unvaccinated, 4.3 per cent have had one dose, 35.2 per cent have had two doses and 30.8 per cent have had three doses.

Among Alberta’s total population, 80.9 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 76.1 per cent have received two doses 35.6 per cent have received three doses.

There are nine city outbreaks listed on the AHS website, including the Medicine Hat Remand Centre. There are two listed outbreaks in Brooks, one in Taber, one in Bow Island and one in Oyen.

There are 797 known active cases and 32,923 recovered in the South Zone. The death total in the zone is at 349.

The province-wide reproductive value for the week of Feb. 14-27 is 0.87. It is 0.84 in Calgary Zone, 0.88 in Edmonton Zone and 0.88 in the rest of Alberta.

At the last update from Jan. 31-Feb. 13, the numbers were 0.76 in the province, 0.72 in Calgary Zone, 0.78 in Edmonton Zone and 0.79 in the rest of Alberta.

Cypress County has totaled 1,151 confirmed cases. There are 23 active cases, 1,122 recovered and six deaths. 70.6 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 67.3 per cent have two doses and 26.7 per cent have had three doses.

The County of Forty Mile has 421 total confirmed cases. There are seven active cases, 409 recovered and there have been five deaths. 44.1 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 41.3 per cent have two doses and 16.5 per cent have had three doses.

The MD of Taber has 1,641 total confirmed cases — 37 active cases, 1,585 recovered and there have been 19 deaths. 51.4 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 48.9 per cent have two doses and 20 per cent have had three doses.

Special Areas No. 2 has 344 total confirmed cases – five active cases, 334 recovered and there have been five deaths.

Brooks has 2,629 total confirmed cases — 13 active cases and 2,584 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 32 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 649 confirmed cases — seven active cases, 633 recovered and there have been nine deaths. 70.9 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 66.6 per cent have two doses and 24 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 1,079 total confirmed cases. There are 23 active cases, 1,049 are recovered cases and there have been seven deaths in the county. 63.5 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 58.9 per cent have two doses and 22.8 per cent have had three doses.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 11,622 confirmed cases. There are 327 active cases, 11,208 recovered and there have been 87 deaths. Lethbridge County has 2,634 confirmed cases, 57 active cases, 2,555 recovered and there have been 22 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 March 6, 2022.

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