By Chris Brown

Confirmed new COVID-19 cases down in Medicine Hat

Sep 21, 2022 | 3:59 PM

Medicine Hat’s number of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 has gone down in this week’s update, while the province-wide number has gone up.

The province released the weekly COVID update on Wednesday.

In Medicine Hat, 25 new cases were identified between Sept. 14-20, down from 31 in the previous period. There were no COVID deaths recorded in Medicine Hat. There have been 105 over the course of the pandemic.

During the same period, there were 1,194 cases confirmed province-wide, up slightly from 1,098 in the previous week and 42 COVID deaths. There are 843 COVID inpatients in Alberta hospitals, up from 819. Of the total number of inpatients, 26 of them are in ICU, the same number as last week.

Alberta has confirmed a total of 605,757 over the course of the pandemic and 4,872 deaths.

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Appointment bookings in Alberta for Moderna’s Spikevax Bivalent COVID-19 vaccine – which targets the original COVID-19 strain as well as the Omicron variant –opened on Wednesday. It was expected the first doses would be administered on Wednesday.

Among all Medicine Hat residents, 79.1 per cent have received one dose of vaccine, 75.6 per cent have received two doses and 37.3 per cent have received three doses.

Among Alberta’s total population, 82.1 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 77.7 per cent have received two doses 39.4 per cent have received three doses.

More detailed information is available on the province’s COVID-19 dashboard.