Zero active COVID-19 cases linked to Red Deer Olymel outbreak

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Meantime, the number of active cases in Red Deer sits at 111 as of Saturday, an increase of five over the past 24 hours.

There have been 2,805 recoveries, an increase of four, with the total number of cases attributed to Red Deer rising nine to 2,949.

Alberta added 556 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday with a positivity rate of ~5.2 per cent and 9,979 tests completed.

The number of active cases in the province is 5,618, up 189. Recoveries are up 453 to a total of 133,800. There have been a total of 141,379 confirmed cases.

There are now 279 Albertans in hospital due to COVID-19, up three from Friday, including 47 in intensive care, down one.

Four additional COVID-19 deaths were also reported to Alberta Health in the last 24 hours to bring the province’s total to 1,961. The deaths occurred from Mar. 18-19.

As of Saturday, there have been 1,417 total variant cases of COVID-19 in the province, an increase of 99 over the past day, including 1,397 cases of the UK variant. All cases identified Saturday were of the UK variant. There have been 231 variant cases, up 14, identified in Central Zone, all of them the UK version.

Alberta has administered 452,690 doses of COVID-19 vaccine as of March 19, up about 13,00 in one day.

Active cases across Central Zone as of Saturday

Red Deer County: 17 (+1)

Sylvan Lake: 18 (+1)

Lacombe County: 42 (+6)

City of Lacombe: 37 (-3)

Ponoka County: 103 (+2)

Clearwater County: 26 (-3)

Brazeau County: 6 (–)

Mountain View County: 12 (–)

Olds: 9 (+1)

Kneehill County: 4 (–)

County of Stettler: 6 (–)

The Central Zone has 534 active cases, up eight from Friday. There are 33 hospitalizations in the zone, up three, and there are six people are receiving intensive care for COVID-19 at Red Deer Regional Hospital, the same as yesterday. The zone has recorded 120 deaths, none of which were reported today.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw, who provided comments Saturday via Twitter, will provide her next live update on Mar. 22.

Dr. Hinshaw: “After thorough reviews, Health Canada, the European Medicine Agency & others have all found that the AstraZeneca vaccine is not associated with an increased overall risk of all blood clots.

Only 25/20,000,000 people who received AstraZeneca reported the issues that created these concerns. These involved specific types of rare blood clots: 7 reports of clots in multiple blood vessels & 18 of a blood clot in the brain, mainly occurring in patients under 50.

The European Medicine Agency is looking closely at these patients to see what happened and whether the AstraZeneca vaccine might be linked.

Even if these very rare events are found to be linked to AstraZeneca, an unvaccinated person in AB between age 20-49 would have, on average, a 500x higher risk of dying from COVID-19 after testing positive than having 1 of these rare types of blood clots after immunization.

Health Canada has been clear: the benefits of the AstraZeneca/COVIShield vaccine in protecting Albertans from COVID-19 continue to far outweigh the risks.

I want to assure everyone that Canada has a robust surveillance system in place to protect you. (5/7)

Safety is always our top priority and we continue to monitor closely for even minor adverse events. (6/7)

The bottom line is that vaccines help save lives – both your life and the lives of family and friends.

When you are eligible to get vaccinated, please do so. The more people who get immunized, the safer we will be and the faster we can safely ease restrictions.”