By Chris Brown

COVID numbers down locally and province-wide

Apr 12, 2023 | 4:26 PM

New COVID-19 cases and the number of COVID patients in Alberta hospitals are down in the latest provincial update released on Wednesday.

Province-wide as of April 10, there are 458 Albertans currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 17 of those people are in ICU. In the last update there were 485 in hospital and 19 in ICU.

There were 343 new cases over the most recent seven-day period, down from last week’s 380.

There have been 5,674 COVID deaths recorded in Alberta over the course of the pandemic. That’s 21 more than in the previous update.

There were 21 new cases in the South Zone in the update, down from 26 in the previous update. The seven-day new case rate in the zone of 6.7 new cases per 100,000 people is just below the provincial average of 7.8.

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There have been 41,174 total COVID-19 cases in the zone since the start of the pandemic, and 527 deaths, two new in this update.

The province’s COVID-19 dashboard is now showing only zone statistics instead of by municipality.

Vaccination statistics for Medicine Hat show 79.5 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.