By Chris Brown

COVID numbers up in South Zone

Mar 30, 2023 | 3:54 PM

COVID-19 appears to be making a return to the South Zone.

According to the updated numbers from the province on Wednesday, the South Zone’s seven-day new case rate has risen by almost 50 per cent in the past two weeks.

This is the first update since March 15 due to technical difficulties last week.

There were 29 new cases in the South Zone in the update, up from 19 in the previous update. The seven-day new case rate in the zone of 9.3 new cases per 100,000 people is just above the provincial average of 9. Two weeks ago the South Zone’s seven-day new case rate was 6.1.

There have been 41,127 total COVID-19 cases in the zone since the start of the pandemic, and 525 deaths, three new in this update.

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The province’s COVID-19 dashboard is now showing only zone statistics instead of by municipality.

Province-wide as of March 27, there are 465 Albertans currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 25 of those people are in ICU. In the last update there were 486 in hospital and 11 in ICU.

There were 397 new cases over the most recent seven-day period, up from last week’s 388.

There have been 5,643 COVID deaths recorded in Alberta over the course of the pandemic. That’s 24 more than in the previous update.

Vaccination statistics for Medicine Hat show 79.5 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.