Red Deer’s active COVID-19 cases up 73 per cent over past week

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Meantime, Alberta confirmed 1,486 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, for a total of 169,279 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic 13.5 months ago.

The one day total is out of 16,353 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of ~9.1 per cent.

The number of active cases in the province is 17,307, up 548, while recoveries are up to 149,935.

There are 445 Albertans in hospital due to COVID-19, up 22 from Friday, including 94 in intensive care, up one.

Three additional COVID-19 deaths were reported to Alberta Health in the last 24 hours to bring the province’s total as of Saturday to 2,037. Two were in Calgary Zone on April 15 and the other was in Edmonton Zone on April 16.

As of Saturday, there have been 15,827 total variant cases of COVID-19 identified in the province, 9,417 of which are active, up 450. That means 54.5 per cent of all active COVID-19 cases in the province are variants of concern, up 0.9 per cent from yesterday.

In the last day, total variant cases are up 977, and three more deaths from variants have been recorded for a total of 52. Those are already included in the overall death toll.

A total of 1,862 variant cases have been identified in Central Zone, all but 11 of them the B.1.1.9 variant. The remainder are the P.1 variant.

Alberta has administered 1,121,901 doses of COVID-19 vaccine as of April 16. A total of 225,472 Albertans have been fully vaccinated.

Active cases across Central Zone as of Saturday(one-day and seven-day change), and total deaths (seven-day change not included this week)

Red Deer County: 104 (+3, +52), 4 deaths

Sylvan Lake: 54 (+2, +23), 2 deaths

Lacombe County: 72 (+3, +14), 1 death

City of Lacombe: 70 (+4, +22), 1 death

Ponoka County: 176 (+3, -19), 13 deaths

Clearwater County: 22 (+4, +13), 2 deaths

Brazeau County: 49 (–, +22)

Mountain View County: 69 (+3, +27), 1 death

Olds: 65 (+3, +25), 1 death

Kneehill County: 41 (–, +19), 3 deaths

County of Stettler: 18 (+5, +10), 2 deaths

The Central Zone has 1,734 active cases as of Saturday, an increase of 105. There are 45 hospitalizations, up five, and four people are receiving intensive care for COVID-19 at Red Deer Regional Hospital, the same as Friday. The zone has had 129 deaths as a result of COVID-19, none of which were reported today.

Notable ongoing Central Zone outbreaks

-Safe Harbour Shelter in Red Deer – 40 cases: 32 active, 8 recovered

-Drumheller Institution – 228 cases: 7 active, 221 recovered

-Extendicare Michener Hill in Red Deer – 10 cases: 9 recovered, 1 death

-Lacombe Pentecostal Church – 18 cases: 4 active, 14 recovered

-Olymel in Red Deer – 526 cases: 2 active, 521 recovered, 3 deaths

More seven-day change figures (updated by rdnewsNOW each Saturday)

Alberta

Total: 169,279 (+9,560)

Active: 17,307 (+3,620)

Recovered: 149,935 (last week’s unavailable)

Hospitalized: 445 (+96)

ICU: 94 (+10)

Deaths: 2,037 (+25)

Positivity rate: ~9.1% (+0.1%)

UK (B.1.1.7) variant cases: 15,627 (last week’s unavailable)

S. Africa (B.1.351) variant cases: 32 (last week’s unavailable)

Brazilian (P.1) variant cases: 168 (last week’s unavailable)

Total variant cases: 15,827 (last week’s unavailable)

Variant percentage of all active cases: 54.5% (+6.8%)

Vaccine doses administered: 1,121,901 (+303,212)

Two doses administered: 220,472 (+66,455)

Tests completed: 3,939,690 (last week’s unavailable)

People tested: 1,975,657 (last week’s unavailable)

Central Zone

Total: 13,612 (last week’s unavailable)

Active: 1,734 (+610)

Recovered: 11,749 (last week’s unavailable)

Deaths: 129 (+6)

Hospitalized: 45 (+15)

ICU (all at Red Deer Regional): 4 (-4)

Variant cases: 1,862 (+477)

Active variant cases: 1,132 (last week’s unavailable)

Central Zone school cases announced since last Saturday
*alert = 1-4 cases, outbreak = 5-9 cases, outbreak tier 2 = 10+ cases

Ponoka County – Woodlands Adventist School (ALERT)

Wetaskiwin – Centennial School (ALERT)

Red Deer – Notre Dame High School (OUTBREAK)

Deburne – Delburne Centralized School – 5 new cases (OUTBREAK TIER 2)

Red Deer – Lindsay Thurber Compresensive High School – 1 new case (OUTBREAK TIER 2)

Red Deer – Hunting Hills High School – 1 new case

Wetaskiwin – Norwood School – 1 new case

Innisfail – Innisfail High School – 2 new cases (Grades 9-12 online learning starting April 16)

Stettler – Wm E. Hay Secondary Campus – 2 new cases (ALERT)

Sylvan Lake – Ecole Fox Run School – 1 new case (ALERT)

Olds – Olds Koinonia Christian School (OUTBREAK-160 students and staff isolating)

Red Deer County – Spruce View School – 2 new cases

Devon – Riverview Middle School – 1 new case

Sundre – Sundre High School – 1 new case (ALERT)

Lacombe – Central Alberta Christian High School (ALERT)

Red Deer – Eastview Middle School (OUTBREAK)

Bentley – Bentley High School – 1 to 4 cases

Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, will give her next update after the weekend.

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