By Chris Brown

COVID-19 cases in South Zone down by almost 30 per cent

Feb 8, 2023 | 4:22 PM

COVID-19 hospitalizations and new cases are down in the province and zone over the last week. The province released the updated numbers on Wednesday.

As of Feb. 6, there are 683 Albertans currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 22 of those people are in ICU. Last week there were 702 in hospital and 25 in ICU.

There were 558 new cases over the most recent seven-day period, compared to 596 last week.

There have been 5,510 COVID deaths recorded in Alberta over the course of the pandemic, 24 new this week.

The province’s COVID-19 dashboard is now showing only zone statistics instead of by municipality. There were 29 new cases in the South Zone in the update, down from 41.

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The seven-day new case rate in the zone of 9.3 new cases per 100,000 people is lower than the provincial average of 12.6.

There have been 40,981 total COVID-19 cases in the zone since the start of the pandemic, and 515 deaths, two new in this update.

Vaccination statistics for Medicine Hat show 79.4 per cent of all people have received one dose, 76 per cent have received two doses and 38.7 per cent have received three doses.