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Red Deer up to 187 active cases, Alberta Health reports eight more deaths

Jan 31, 2021 | 4:11 PM

Alberta is reporting another 461 cases of COVID-19, for a total of 124,208 up to the end of Jan. 30.

With recoveries taken into account, active cases drop by 25 to 7,505. With 8,946 tests done, the positivity rate for the day is about 5.2 per cent, up from 3.6 per cent from a day earlier.

There are 561 Albertans in hospital, down 21, and 101 people in ICU, down two.

There were eight additional deaths reported Sunday, one of which occurred on Nov. 27. The other seven happened between Jan. 19-30. The province’s death toll now sits at 1,639.

Additionally, 106,254 doses of vaccine have been administered, about 500 more than reported yesterday.

In Red Deer, there are 187 active cases, up by eight. This marks the seventh straight day the city’s active caseload has crept up. It peaked at 434 on Dec. 18 and got as low as 158 on Jan. 24.

Red Deer added 17 new cases over the last one-day reporting period. Deaths sit at 19, with the last one reported Friday involving a male in his 30s with no known co-morbidities.

Made with Flourish

In Central Zone, Red Deer County holds steady at 24 active cases, while Sylvan Lake edges up one to 31.

Lacombe County has 31, down one, and there are 18 in Lacombe, down six.

Ponoka County, which has steadily watched numbers decrease the last two weeks, primarily due to the caseload in Maskwacis, now has 141 active cases, up 18. Yesterday, it had come down from 152.

Clearwater County has 59 active cases, up three, and Brazeau County remains at six.

Mountain View County is down two to 11, and Olds is steady at five. There are three in Kneehill County, down one, and County of Stettler is up one to six.

Central Zone, meanwhile, shoots up today from 666 to 700 active cases. The zone has now recorded 8,876 total cases of coronavirus, fourth most and ahead of just the South Zone.

Central Zone has 44 people in hospital, down two, and six people in ICU, down one. All ICU patients in the zone are at Red Deer Regional Hospital. Fatalities total 87.

Central Zone Outbreaks

Acute care facilities

  • Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre
  • St. Mary’s Hospital
  • Wetaskiwin Hospital & Care Centre

Long term care facilities

  • Coronation Long Term Care
  • Vermilion Health Centre

Supportive living/home living sites

  • Catholic Social Services group home, Wetaskiwin
  • Consort Hospital and Health Centre
  • Doreen Johnson House, Wetaskiwin
  • Drumheller Institution
  • Etana Wells group home, Red Deer
  • Good Samaritan Rocky Mountain House
  • Good Shepherd Lutheran Home, Wetaskiwin
  • Parkland group home, Red Deer
  • Peace Hills Lodge, Wetaskiwin
  • Points West Living, Red Deer
  • Private group home, Red Deer
  • Providence Place Daysland, Daysland
  • Seasons Camrose
  • Unlimited Potential Community Services Lotus House, Wetaskiwin
  • Vegreville Association for Living with Dignity
  • Vegreville Homestead Senior Citizen’s Lodge

Other facilities and settings

  • Love, Fun & Learning Day Home, Red Deer
  • Montair Aviation, Springbrook
  • Olymel, Red Deer
  • Red Deer Remand Centre
  • Walmart (south location), Red Deer
  • Wetaskiwin Hub
  • Wonderflow School House, Red Deer

Central Zone cases in schools (reported last seven days or current alerts/outbreaks)

  • Ecole Oriole Park Elementary (Red Deer) – 1 case (Jan. 27) – third case to date
  • St. Gregory the Great Catholic School (Blackfalds) – 2-4 cases (Jan. 25) – Alert in effect
  • Ecole Mother Teresa (Sylvan Lake) – 1 case (Jan. 24)
  • St. Joseph High School (Red Deer) – 10+ cases (Jan. 24) – online learning until Feb. 5, Outbreak declared
  • Ecole Secondaire Lacombe Composite High School (Lacombe) – 2-4 cases, Alert in effect
  • Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School (Red Deer) – 2-4 cases, Alert in effect
  • Alix MAC School (Alix) – 2-4 cases, Alert in effect

As reported Friday, Alberta Health has detected 31 cases of the UK variant, and six cases of a South Africa variant. All but three cases are travel-related. Those numbers are being updated weekly.

More information here.

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