By Chris Brown

New cases of COVID-19, number of inpatients continues downward trend

Mar 8, 2023 | 5:08 PM

New cases and the number of COVID-19 inpatients and people in ICU in Alberta continues to drop.

As of March 6, there are 518 Albertans currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 12 of those people are in ICU. Last week there were 554 in hospital and 15 in ICU.

There were 347 new cases over the most recent seven-day period, down marginally from last week’s 385.

There have been 5,622 COVID deaths recorded in Alberta over the course of the pandemic, 20 new this week.

The province’s COVID-19 dashboard is now showing only zone statistics instead of by municipality. There were 19 new cases in the South Zone in the update, up from 17 last week.

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The seven-day new case rate in the zone of 6.1 new cases per 100,000 people is well below the provincial average of 7.9.

There have been 41,062 total COVID-19 cases in the zone since the start of the pandemic, and 522 deaths, none 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 38.8 per cent have received three doses.

More information can be found on the Alberta COVID-19 dashboard.