By Chris Brown

New COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations down in Alberta, 27 additional deaths

Jan 18, 2023 | 4:34 PM

The province’s weekly report shows the number of Albertans in hospital with COVID-19 and the number of new cases are both continuing to decline.

As of Jan. 16, there are 856 Albertans currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 29 of those people are in ICU. Last week there were 878 in hospital and 33 in ICU.

There were 848 new cases over the most recent seven-day period, compared to 981 last week.

There have been 5,470 COVID deaths recorded in Alberta over the course of the pandemic, 27 since the last update.

The province’s COVID-19 dashboard is now showing only zone statistics instead of by municipality. There were 54 new cases in the South Zone in the update.

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The seven-day new case rate in the zone of 17.4 new cases per 100,000 people is just under the provincial average of 19.1.

There have been 40,877 total COVID-19 cases in the zone since the start of the pandemic, and 508 deaths, five new in this update.

Vaccination statistics for Medicine Hat show 79.4 per cent of all people have received one dose, 75.9 per cent have received two doses and 38.7 per cent have received three doses.