By Troy Gillard

FRIDAY UPDATE

Red Deer with four active COVID-19 cases

Jul 10, 2020 | 4:04 PM

There are now four active cases of COVID-19 in Red Deer.

That’s one more than was reported for the city on Thursday, according to the latest numbers from Alberta Health.

The number of active cases in the Central Zone is now 13. Three Hills has two active cases while Ponoka, Didsbury, Drumheller, Drayton Valley, Stettler, Oyen and the Castor/Coronation/Consort area each have one active case.

There have been 90 recoveries from COVID-19 in the Central Zone and one death.

Overall, Alberta is reporting 77 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the province’s total to 8,596.

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The number of active cases up by eight to 592 and recoveries are up by 70 to 7,844.

There were 7,801 tests were completed in the past 24 hours.

The province revised its reported death toll from the virus from 161 to 160 on Friday with officials saying a death at the Misericordia hospital in Edmonton, where an outbreak has occurred, that was previously attributed to COVID-19 was since found not to be virus-related.

There are 50 Albertans in hospital because of the novel coronavirus. Nine of them are intensive care.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day July 9, 2020.”