Known active COVID-19 cases continue to drop in Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat has had 6,643 confirmed total cases – the 540 active, 6,021 recovered and there have been 82 deaths.

There are 27 new confirmed cases in the city and 65 new recoveries in the past 24 hours.

With the province limiting testing in the fifth wave, these confirmed cases do not accurately reflect the number of cases in the community.

Among all Medicine Hat residents, 78.2 per cent have received one dose of vaccine, 73.9 per cent have received two doses and 33.6 per cent have received three doses.

There are 26,896 known active cases in the province, down 1,369 in the past 24 hours, and 480,810 recovered cases in the province, up 3,043.

There have been 25,807 cases of the Omicron variant identified in Alberta, up from 25,218 on Tuesday. Of those, 1,023 cases are in the South Zone.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 511,402.

There are 1,684 new cases confirmed in the province in the past 24 hours.

Again these are only the confirmed cases and do not accurately reflect the number of cases in the province.

The province completed 5,748 tests in the past 24 hours.

The positivity rate is today is about 29.3 per cent.

Alberta has administered 8,391,935 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

In the last seven days, COVID was the primary or a contributing factor in 62.5 per cent of non-ICU hospitalizations and 77.5 per cent of ICU admissions.

Among new cases today, 23.7 per cent are unvaccinated, 3.6 per cent have had one dose, 40.4 have had two doses and 32.3 per cent have had three doses.

Among current hospitalizations, 29.8 per cent are unvaccinated, 5.1 per cent have had one dose, 37.7 per cent have had two doses and 27.4 per cent have had three doses.

Among Alberta’s total population, 80.6 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 75.1 per cent have received two doses 34.1 per cent have received three doses.

There are nine city outbreaks listed on the AHS website, including the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital and Medicine Hat Remand Centre. There are three listed outbreaks in Brooks and one in Oyen.

There are 2,380 known active cases and 29,543 recovered in the South Zone. The death total in the zone is at 326.

The province-wide reproductive value for the week of Jan. 24-30 is 1.00. It is 1.04 in Calgary Zone, 0.96 in Edmonton Zone and 0.98 in the rest of Alberta.

At the last update from Jan 10-16, the numbers were 0.88 in the province, 0.80 in Calgary Zone, 0.87 in Edmonton Zone and 1.03 in the rest of Alberta.

Cypress County has totaled 1,114 confirmed cases. There are 73 active cases, 1,035 recovered and six deaths. 70.5 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 66.6 per cent have two doses and 25.7 per cent have had three doses.

The County of Forty Mile has 407 total confirmed cases. There are 20 active cases, 382 recovered and there have been five deaths. 44 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 40.7 per cent have two doses and 16 per cent have had three doses.

The MD of Taber has 1,588 total confirmed cases — 111 active cases, 1,459 recovered and there have been 18 deaths. 51.2 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 48.2 per cent have two doses and 19.5 per cent have had three doses.

Special Areas No. 2 has 332 total confirmed cases – 13 active cases, 314 recovered and there have been five deaths.

Brooks has 2,566 total confirmed cases — 88 active cases and 2,448 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 30 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 628 confirmed cases — 40 active cases, 579 recovered and there have been nine deaths. 70.6 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 65.8 per cent have two doses and 22.6 per cent have had three doses. County of Newell vaccination numbers include Brooks and part of Special Areas No. 2.

The County of Warner has 1,018 total confirmed cases. There are 86 active cases, 927 are recovered cases and there have been five deaths in the county. 63.4 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 58.3 per cent have two doses and 22.2 per cent have had three doses.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 10,899 confirmed cases. There are 894 active cases, 9,926 recovered and there have been 79 deaths. Lethbridge County has 2,488 confirmed cases, 146 active cases, 2,321 recovered and there have been 21 deaths.

Again these are only the confirmed cases and do not accurately reflect the number of cases in the regions.

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 Feb. 8, 2022.

Beginning this week, Saskatchewan is only updating its data on Thursdays. At the last update on Monday, Saskatchewan had a total of 123,258 cases, 9,223 considered active. There are 113,023 recovered cases and there have been 1,012 COVID-19 deaths in the province.

by Chris Brown

Known active COVID-19 cases continue to drop in Medicine Hat

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