Red Deer with record 683 active COVID-19 cases

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The total number of deaths in Red Deer due to the virus remains at 36.

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Provincially, 1,495 new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Monday. That’s out of 14,848 tests for a positivity rate of about 10.1 per cent.

Active cases in the province sit at 20,610, up 474 from Sunday.

1,542 new variant cases of concern were also identified, bringing the total number of active variant cases in the province to 13,187 or 64 per cent of all active cases.

616 Albertans are currently in hospital with COVID-19, up 22 from Sunday, which includes 145 in ICUs, up five.

There have been seven additional deaths reported to Alberta Health in the last 24 hours.

• Date of death: April 20. A male in his 40s in North Zone.
• Date of death: April 21. A female in her 20s in Edmonton Zone.
• Date of death: April 24. A female in her 60s in Edmonton Zone.
• Date of death: April 24. A male in his 70s in Central Zone.
• Date of death: April 24. A male in his 50s in Calgary Zone.
• Date of death: April 24. A male in his 70s in North Zone.
• Date of death: April 25. A male in his 50s in South Zone.

Active cases across Central Zone

Red Deer County: 163 (+16)

Sylvan Lake: 87 (+15)

Lacombe County: 109 (+8)

City of Lacombe: 136 (+16)

Ponoka County: 155 (+16)

Clearwater County: 67 (+5)

Brazeau County: 85 (+5)

Mountain View County: 90 (+11)

Olds: 112 (+12)

Kneehill County: 43 (+1)

County of Stettler: 32 (-)

The Central Zone has 2,341 active cases as of Monday, a one-day increase of 176. There are 57 hospitalizations, up three, and seven people are receiving intensive care for COVID-19 at Red Deer Regional Hospital, steady from Sunday. The zone has had 132 deaths as a result of COVID-19, with one reported on Monday.

Elsewhere across the province, there are 8,491 active cases of COVID-19 in the Calgary Zone, 5,850 in the Edmonton Zone, 2,883 in the North Zone, 983 in the South Zone, and 62 additional cases in unconfirmed locations.