By Troy Gillard

Four-month low

Red Deer down to 93 active COVID-19 cases

Mar 16, 2021 | 4:29 PM

For the first time in four months, Red Deer has fewer than 100 active cases of COVID-19.

Tuesday’s update from the province shows 93 active cases in the city, down from 105 on Monday.

It’s Red Deer’s lowest total since 92 active cases were reported on November 13.

Red Deer added 15 recoveries over the past day, for a total of 2,776, as the overall number of COVID-19 cases attributed to the city rose by three to 2,902. The number of deaths in Red Deer stemming from COVID-19 remains 33.

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Elsewhere in the Central Zone:

Red Deer County: 17 (+2)

Sylvan Lake: 13 (–)

Lacombe County: 29 (-2)

City of Lacombe: 29 (+4)

Ponoka County: 78 (-3)

Clearwater County: 31 (11)

Brazeau County: 2 (-1)

Mountain View County: 15 (-3)

Olds: 10 (+1)

Kneehill County: 3 (-1)

County of Stettler: 6 (–)

Across the zone there are 448 active cases as of Tuesday and 28 hospitalizations, including five in intensive care at Red Deer Regional Hospital. Central zone has had 120 deaths stemming from COVID-19.

Province-wide, Alberta confirmed 355 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday. That’s out of 6,018 tests for a positivity rate of about 5.9 per cent.

The number of active cases in the province is down 35 to 4,776, while recoveries are up 387 to a total of 132,415.

There are 260 Albertans in hospital due to COVID-19, up five from Monday, including 44 in intensive care, up two.

Three additional COVID-19 deaths were reported to Alberta Health in the last 24 hours to bring the province’s total as of Sunday to 1,952. The deaths occurred Dec. 11 (a man in his 40s in the Calgary zone), March 14 (a woman in her 90s in Edmonton zone, linked to the outbreak at Misericordia Community Hospital) and March 15 (a woman in her 90s in the South zone). All three cases included comorbidities.

As of Tuesday, there have been 1,047 total variant cases of COVID-19 in the province, 1,028 of which are the UK variant, 61 more than Monday, 17 are the South African variant, an increase of one, and two are the Brazilian variant.

Currently, 276 Alberta schools, about 11 per cent, are on alert or have outbreaks, with 1,160 cases in total. There are 193 schools are on alert, with 380 total cases. Outbreaks are declared in 83 schools, with a total of 780 cases. In-school transmission has likely occurred in 205 schools. Of these, 107 have had only one new case occur as a result.