By Troy Gillard

WEDNESDAY UPDATE

Red Deer with 149 active COVID-19 cases, Alberta records 500th death

Nov 25, 2020 | 4:01 PM

Alberta announced another 1,265 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.

That’s out of 15,644 tests completed over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of 8.1 per cent.

There are now 13,719 active cases in the province, an increase of 370.

355 people are in hospital, an increase of seven, including 71 in intensive care, an increase of five.

Sadly, Alberta has now recorded 500 deaths from COVID-19 after reporting eight more on Wednesday.

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Red Deer has added eight active cases of COVID-19 to sit with 149.

There have been 290 recovered cases, an increase of six, as the total number of cases attributed to the city rose 14 to 439.

Red Deer County is up one to 50 active cases, while Sylvan Lake added seven for a total of 36.

Clearwater County (Rocky Mountain House) has 12 active cases, a decrease of one.

Lacombe County has 30 active cases, an increase of one, and the city of Lacombe has 19, an increase of two.

Ponoka County saw its active case count drop from 220 to 216.

Mountain View County is down two to 10 active cases, Olds is up one to 15 and Kneehill County is down one to 13. Starland County and the County of Stettler each have two.

There are now 876 active cases across the Central zone with 17 hospitalizations, including four in intensive care.

Red Deer, Red Deer County, Lacombe, Lacombe County, Clearwater County (Rocky Mountain House), Ponoka County, Olds and Kneehill County are all on the province’s ‘enhanced’ status list as of Wednesday.

The list of outbreaks in the Central zone now includes the Revera Aspen Ridge supportive living facility in Red Deer, as well as the Avenue Living Communities office, Olymel and Pure Fitness in Red Deer, and a private gathering in Ponoka.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health repeated her message that the daily rise in COVID cases in the province, as well as the growing number and extent of outbreaks in acute care facilities, continues to be concerning.