Active COVID-19 cases in Medicine Hat down to 37

Across the province, there are 13,450 active cases, up 39 from Tuesday, and 92,858 recovered cases, up 1,059.

Alberta’s total number of COVID-19 cases from the start of the pandemic is 107,501.

There are 1,123 new cases in the province today.

There are now 911 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 141 of which are in ICU, and 1,193 deaths.

The province completed 16,127 tests in the past 24 hours.

The provincial positivity rate is 7.0 per cent.

Medicine Hat and the entire province remains in enhanced status, in which risk levels require enhanced public health measures to control the spread and are informed by local context.

Medicine Hat remains on the provincial “Watch” list, though is only three cases above the threshold.

Regions are placed on the province’s “Watch” list when they have a rate of more than 50 active cases per 100,000 population. Medicine Hat’s 37 active cases among 68,057 people puts it at a rate of 54.4.

Cypress County with a rate of 44.6 on five active cases is not on the “Watch” list.

Brooks (62.2 rate), The County of Newell (74.1), Lethbridge (82.8) Lethbridge County (146.7) and the MD of Taber (79.5) are also on the list.

The County of Forty Mile is no longer on the “Watch” list.

There are 5,146 cases in the South Zone. There are 235 active cases and 4,830 recovered. The death total in the zone is at 63.

An AHS spokesperson tells CHAT News the South Zone currently has 17 COVID-19 positive individuals in hospital. There are seven at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital, with one of those in the ICU. Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge has eight inpatients, with two of those in the ICU. The Taber Health Centre and Pincher Creek Health Centre have one inpatient each.

On Wednesday there are 294 schools in the province where outbreaks have been declared. Alberta Health’s threshold for declaring an outbreak in school is two cases being in a school while infectious within 14 days.

In Brooks, an outbreak is listed at Christ the King Academy and Holy Family Academy is on the Watch list.

The website Support Our Students is tracking instances of cases in schools across the province.

Cypress County has totaled 143 cases – five active cases and the rest recovered.

The County of Forty Mile has 114 total cases. There is one active case, 111 recovered and there have been two deaths.

The MD of Taber has 318 total cases — 15 active cases, 297 recovered and there have been six deaths.

Special Areas No. 2 has 37 total cases – three active, 33 recovered and there has been one death.

Brooks has 1,353 total cases — 12 active and 1,327 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 14 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 143 cases — six active cases, 135 recovered and there have been two deaths.

The County of Warner has 146 total cases. There are three active cases, 141 are recovered cases and there have been two deaths in the county.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 1,457 cases. There are 82 active cases, 1,366 recovered and there have been nine deaths. Lethbridge County has 457 cases, 37 active cases, 413 recovered and there have been seven deaths.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day Jan. 5, 2021.”

Saskatchewan confirmed 153 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.

Saskatchewan has a total of 16,804 cases, 2,893 considered active. There are 13,737 recovered cases and there have been 174 COVID-19 deaths in the province.

by Chris Brown

Active COVID-19 cases in Medicine Hat down to 37

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