By Troy Gillard

Alberta surpasses 40,000 recoveries

Red Deer up to 191 active COVID-19 cases

Nov 29, 2020 | 3:46 PM

Alberta announced another 1,608 cases of COVID-19 on Sunday.

That’s out of 23,282 tests completed over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of nearly seven per cent.

There are now 15,692 active cases in the province, an increase of 731. The number of recoveries sits at 40,219, an increase of 838.

435 people are in hospital, an increase of 20, including 95 in intensive care, an increase of seven.

Another nine deaths from COVID-19 were reported to bring Alberta’s total to 533.

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Red Deer has 191 active cases of COVID-19 as of Sunday, an increase of 20. There have now been 334 recovered cases, an increase of three, as the total number of cases attributed to the city rose by 24 to 525.

Red Deer County has 64 active cases as of Saturday, an increase of seven, while Sylvan Lake added four to sit with 48.

Lacombe County has 42 active cases, an increase of seven, while Lacombe has 28, also an increase of six.

Clearwater County (Rocky Mtn. House) added 10 more active cases for a total of 31.

Ponoka County added 12 active cases to sit with 250.

Mountain View County holds steady with 15 active cases, Olds added three for a total of 21, and Kneehill County added one for a total of 16. Starland County remains with four and the County of Stettler is up two for a total of six active cases.

There are now 1,101 active cases in the Central zone, an increase of 110, with 27 hospitalizations, including five in intensive care.

“The next few weeks will be hard for all of us in light of the restrictions on social gatherings. I want to thank all of you for doing the right thing and making these sacrifices to help bend the curve,” Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, Tweeted on Sunday.

“While we may be physically separated from each other, I strongly encourage you to reach out to your friends and family and stay connected virtually. We are all in this together – so please reach out to a loved one if you need to.”

Hinshaw is scheduled to share her next live update on Monday.