By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

sunday update

Record active caseload grows in Red Deer, city passes 4,000 total cases

Apr 25, 2021 | 4:04 PM

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Red Deer sits at 634, up 19 from Saturday.

That total adds to the record amount Red Deer set yesterday.

Over the past day, Red Deer added 51 new cases for 4,001 total, while recoveries went up 32 to 3,331. There have been 36 deaths, none of which were reported today.

For contrast, Lethbridge has recorded 4,030 total cases and has 423 active. Medicine Hat has had 809 cases with 138 active. Fort McMurray has identified 3,506 cases, 1,081 of which are active, and Grande Prairie has had 3,062 cases with 463 active.

Edmonton has 3,997 active cases and a rate of 385/100,000 people and Calgary has 6,682 active cases with a rate of 488.9/100,000 people. Red Deer’s active case rate is 595.9.

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Meantime, Alberta added 1,437 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday with a positivity rate of ~8.4 per cent and 17,035 tests completed. That positivity rate is about 0.6 per cent lower than yesterday.

Overall active cases now total 20,136, up 434.

Three additional COVID-19-linked deaths were reported to Alberta Health in the last 24 hours to bring the province’s total to 2,067. Available details are as follows:

· 4/23/2021 – A male in his 70s in the Edmonton zone. The case included comorbidities.

· 4/23/2021 – A male in his 80s in the Calgary zone. The case included comorbidities.

· 4/23/2021 – A male in his 70s in the Edmonton zone. The case included comorbidities.

There are now 594 Albertans in hospital due to COVID-19, up 10 from Saturday, including 140 in intensive care, up 11.

Alberta has administered 1,398,673 doses of COVID-19 vaccine as of April 24, up 37,308 over the last 24-hour reporting period, while 271,490 Albertans are fully immunized, up 4,295.

VARIANTS

Of all active cases, 12,299 are variants of concern, up 300. Variants make up 61.1 per cent of Alberta’s active cases, up 0.2 per cent. Variants have also caused 68 deaths, up two.

Of the day’s 1,437 new cases, 932 are variants of concern

Of active cases confirmed to be a variant, 5,260 are in Calgary Zone, 3,584 are in Edmonton Zone, 1,458 are in Central Zone, 1,443 are in North Zone, and 529 are in South Zone. Alberta Health does not report variant cases by municipality.

There have been 24,509 confirmed variant cases to date, with 23,729 (+913) of the B.1.1.7 version, 71(+4) of B.1.351, 708 (+15) of P.1, and 1 (–) of B.1.617. Recoveries from variant cases total 12,142 since the first one was detected in this province in December.

Active cases across Central Zone

Red Deer County: 147 (+9)

Sylvan Lake: 72 (+6)

Lacombe County: 101 (+13)

City of Lacombe: 120 (+6) – *15th highest rate of active cases in Alberta at 638.2/100,000 people

Ponoka County: 139 (-5)

Clearwater County: 62 (+8)

Brazeau County: 80 (+1)

Mountain View County: 79 (-4)

Olds: 100 (+7) – *7th highest rate of active cases in Alberta at 804.3/100,000 people

Kneehill County: 42 (–)

County of Stettler: 32 (+5)

The Central Zone has 2,165 active cases as of Sunday, a one-day increase of 60. There are 54 hospitalizations, up five, and seven people are receiving intensive care for COVID-19 at Red Deer Regional Hospital, up two. The zone has had 131 deaths as a result of COVID-19, with none reported today.

Ongoing Central Zone outbreaks
*info requested by Alberta Health on Saturday, provided Sunday

iRecover (Tees): 20 active, 0 recovered

Bowden Institution: 10 active, 1 recovered

Prairie College (Three Hills): 8 active, 15 recovered

First Baptist Church (Olds): 4 active, 7 recovered

Home Hardware Western Distribution Centre (Wetaskiwin): 3 active, 10 recovered

Royal Oak Village (Lacombe): 3 active, 0 recovered

Drumheller Institution: 2 active, 229 recovered

Olymel (Red Deer): 1 active, 525 recovered, 3 deaths

Sundial Growers (Olds): 1 active, 11 recovered

Lacombe Pentecostal Church: 0 active, 18 recovered

Private group home (Red Deer): 0 active, 5 recovered

West Park Lodge (Red Deer): 0 active, 2 recovered

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

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