By Troy Gillard

Alberta tops 100,000 positive tests

Red Deer down to 277 active COVID-19 cases

Dec 30, 2020 | 4:36 PM

Alberta reported 1,287 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.

That’s out of 14,741 test results in the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of 8.7 per cent.

Across the province, there are 14,555 active cases, down 230 from Tuesday, and 84,827 recovered cases, up 1,499.

Alberta’s total number of COVID-19 cases from the start of the pandemic has reached 100,428.

The number of Albertans hospitalized due to COVID-19 has reached 921, an increase of 31. That includes 153 people in intensive care, same as Tuesday.

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The province reported another 18 deaths from COVID-19 to bring the total to 1,046.

In Red Deer, the number of active cases as of Wednesday sits at 277, a decrease of 22 from Tuesday. There have been 1,150 recoveries, an increase of 37, as the total number of COVID-19 cases attributed to the city rose by 18 to 1,431.

The number of deaths in Red Deer because of COVID-19 remains at four.

Red Deer County has 81 active cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday, a decrease of four, while Sylvan Lake has 35, an increase of four.

There are 24 active cases in Clearwater County (Rocky Mountain House), an increase of one.

Lacombe County has 44 active cases, a decrease of two, and the city of Lacombe has 30, up one from Tuesday.

Ponoka County saw its active case count go from 482 on Tuesday to 463 on Wednesday, a decrease of 19.

Mountain View County has 32 active cases, an increase of two, Olds has 32, an increase of four, and Kneehill County remains with 13. The County of Stettler has 20 active cases, a decrease of one from Tuesday’s count.

The Central Zone as a whole has 1,430 active cases as of Wednesday, down by 36, and 94 hospitalizations, an increase of three. Twelve people in the zone are receiving intensive care, one more than Tuesday.

There have been 39 deaths in the Central Zone from COVID-19, including two reported over the past 24 hours – a woman in her 90s on Dec. 27 in relation to the outbreak at the Westview Care Community in Linden, and a male in his 90s on Dec. 29 linked to the outbreak at the Coronation Hospital and Care Centre.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s next in-person update will be on Jan. 5. Online reporting will take a break from Dec. 31 to Jan. 3, she tweeted this week.

Red Deer remains on the provincial “Watch” list and is in enhanced status, as is the entire province. In enhanced status, risk levels require enhanced public health measures to control the spread and are informed by local context.

Regions are placed on the province’s “Watch” list when they have a rate of more than 50 active cases per 100,000 population. Medicine Hat’s 63 active cases among 68,057 people puts it at a rate of 92.6.

The website Support Our Students is tracking instances of cases in schools across the province.

The figures on alberta.ca are “up-to-date as of end of day Dec. 29, 2020.”