By Chris Brown

Key COVID-19 numbers dropping locally and provincially

Mar 2, 2023 | 9:49 AM

The number of COVID-19 inpatients and people in ICU in Alberta has dropped, as has the number of new cases in the South Zone.

As of Feb. 27, there are 554 Albertans currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 15 of those people are in ICU. Last week there were 575 in hospital and 16 in ICU.

There were 385 new cases over the most recent seven-day period, down marginally from last week’s 427.

There have been 5,602 COVID deaths recorded in Alberta over the course of the pandemic, 46 new this week.

The province’s COVID-19 dashboard is now showing only zone statistics instead of by municipality. There were 17 new cases in the South Zone in the update, down from 20 each of the past two weeks.

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The seven-day new case rate in the zone of 5.5 new cases per 100,000 people is well below the provincial average of 8.7.

There have been 41,047 total COVID-19 cases in the zone since the start of the pandemic, and 522 deaths, three new in this update.

Vaccination statistics for Medicine Hat show 79.4 per cent of all people have received one dose, 76 per cent have received two doses and 38.8 per cent have received three doses.

More information can be found on the Alberta COVID-19 dashboard.