By Chris Brown

No new cases in city, 46 in province

Medicine Hat stays at eight active COVID-19 cases

Jul 14, 2021 | 3:58 PM

There are eight active cases of COVID-19 in the city on Wednesday.

Medicine Hat has had 1,271 total cases – the eight active, 1,241 recovered and there have been 22 deaths.

There are no new cases in the city since Tuesday and no new recoveries.

59.8 per cent of Hatters have received at least one dose of vaccine at the latest update.

There are 569 active cases in the province, down 30 from Tuesday, and 229,702 recovered cases in the province, up 75.

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Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 232,582.

There are 46 new cases in the province today, and 18 more variant of concern cases have been identified.

There are now 113 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 33 of which are in ICU, and 2,311 deaths.

The province completed 6,859 tests in the past 24 hours.

The positivity rate is about 0.7 per cent.

Alberta has administered 4,920,417 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

Province-wide, 74.3 per cent of Albertans 12 years old and up have received at least one dose of vaccine and 56.5 per cent are fully vaccinated.

Among Albertans of all ages, 63.2 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 48 per cent are fully vaccinated.

There are 22 active cases and 12,370 recovered in the South Zone. The death total in the zone is at 134.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News on Tuesday There are currently four COVID-19 positive patients hospitalized in the South Zone. Medicine Hat Regional Hospital has two inpatients with one of those in the ICU. Chinook Regional Hospital also has two inpatients.

The province-wide reproductive value for the week of July 5-11 is 0.84. It is 0.88 in Calgary Zone, 0.97 in Edmonton Zone and 0.69 in the rest of Alberta.

Cypress County has totaled 302 cases. There is one active case, 300 recovered and one death. The latest vaccination rate for all ages is 50.2 per cent.

The County of Forty Mile has 157 total cases. There are no active cases, 154 recovered and there have been three deaths. The latest vaccination rate for all ages is 29.8 per cent.

The MD of Taber has 572 total cases — one active case, 565 recovered and there have been six deaths. The latest vaccination rate for all ages is 36.4 per cent.

Special Areas No. 2 has 104 total cases – no active cases, 103 recovered and there has been one death.

Brooks has 1,503 total cases — zero active cases and 1,488 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 15 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 248 cases — five active cases, 240 recovered and there have been three deaths. The latest vaccination rate for all ages is 49.4 per cent, including Brooks.

The County of Warner has 468 total cases. There are no active cases, 465 are recovered cases and there have been three deaths in the county. The latest vaccination rate for all ages is 45.7 per cent.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 4,838 cases. There are four active cases, 4,795 recovered and there have been 39 deaths. Lethbridge County has 1,263 cases, no active cases, 1,251 recovered and there have been 12 deaths.

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 July 13, 2021.”

Saskatchewan has a total of 49,322 cases, 363 considered active. There are 48,386 recovered cases and there have been 573 COVID-19 deaths in the province.

Saskatchewan has delivered 1,313,423 doses of vaccine.