By Chris Brown

Weekend positivity rate down to 25.9%

Known active COVID-19 cases dropping quickly in city, province

Feb 14, 2022 | 3:55 PM

The number of known active COVID-19 cases in Medicine Hat is down by nearly 200 since Friday and by more than 3,300 in the province.

There are now 1,528 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 124 of which are in ICU, and 3,776 deaths.

An AHS spokesperson told CHAT News Friday that there are currently 86 COVID-19 positive inpatients in the South Zone with eight of those in the ICU. There are 27 inpatients at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital with four COVID-19 positive patients in the ICU.

Chinook Regional Hospital has 37 inpatients with four in the ICU. Brooks Health Centre and Taber Health Centre have four inpatients each; Bassano Health Centre, Cardston Health Centre, and Pincher Creek Health Centre have two each; Big Country Hospital and Crowsnest Pass Health Centre have one each.

There are 423 confirmed active cases of COVID-19 in Medicine Hat on Monday.

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Medicine Hat has had 6,753 confirmed total cases – the 423 active, 6,246 recovered and there have been 84 deaths.

There are 62 new confirmed cases in the city and 115 new recoveries since the Friday update.

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, 74.1 per cent have received two doses and 33.9 per cent have received three doses.

There are 20,865 known active cases in the province, down 3,289 since the Friday update, and 492,171 recovered cases in the province, up 5,901.

There have been 26,265 cases of the Omicron variant identified in Alberta, up from 26,053 on Friday. Of those, 1,052 cases are in the South Zone.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 516,812.

There are 2,647 new cases confirmed in the province since the Friday update.

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

The province completed 10,217 tests since the Friday update.

The positivity rate is today is about 25.9 per cent.

Alberta has administered 8,429,072 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

In the last seven days, COVID was the primary or a contributing factor in 69.1 per cent of non-ICU hospitalizations and 84.7 per cent of ICU admissions.

Among new cases today, 34.4 per cent are unvaccinated, 4.7 per cent have had one dose, 34.1 have had two doses and 26.8 per cent have had three doses.

Among current hospitalizations, 30 per cent are unvaccinated, 5.6 per cent have had one dose, 36.7 per cent have had two doses and 27.7 per cent have had three doses.

Among Alberta’s total population, 80.7 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 75.3 per cent have received two doses 34.6 per cent have received three doses.

There are 11 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 1,952 known active cases and 30,498 recovered in the South Zone. The death total in the zone is at 333.

The province-wide reproductive value for the week of Jan. 31-Feb. 13 is 0.76. It is 0.72 in Calgary Zone, 0.78 in Edmonton Zone and 0.79 in the rest of Alberta.

At the last update from Jan. 24-30, the numbers were 1.00 in the province, 1.04 in Calgary Zone, 0.96 in Edmonton Zone and 0.98 in the rest of Alberta.

Cypress County has totaled 1,122 confirmed cases. There are 51 active cases, 1,065 recovered and six deaths. 70.5 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 66.8 per cent have two doses and 26.1 per cent have had three doses.

The County of Forty Mile has 411 total confirmed cases. There are 20 active cases, 386 recovered and there have been five deaths. 44 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 40.8 per cent have two doses and 16.2 per cent have had three doses.

The MD of Taber has 1,595 total confirmed cases — 72 active cases, 1,505 recovered and there have been 18 deaths. 51.3 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 48.5 per cent have two doses and 19.6 per cent have had three doses.

Special Areas No. 2 has 337 total confirmed cases – 14 active cases, 318 recovered and there have been five deaths.

Brooks has 2,590 total confirmed cases — 66 active cases and 2,494 are recovered. Brooks has recorded 30 deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 637 confirmed cases — 42 active cases, 586 recovered and there have been nine deaths. 70.7 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 66.1 per cent have two doses and 23 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 1,031 total confirmed cases. There are 67 active cases, 958 are recovered cases and there have been five deaths in the county. 63.5 per cent of all residents have one dose of vaccine, 58.6 per cent have two doses and 22.4 per cent have had three doses.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 11,120 confirmed cases. There are 751 active cases, 10,287 recovered and there have been 82 deaths. Lethbridge County has 2,537 confirmed cases, 132 active cases, 2,384 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. 13, 2022.

Beginning on Feb. 7, Saskatchewan is only updating its data on Thursdays. Data can be found here.