Alberta reports just 60 new COVID cases, Red Deer adds five

Elsewhere locally as of Monday (by municipality):

Red Deer County: 14 (no change from Sunday)

Sylvan Lake: 6 (–)

Lacombe County: 8 (-2)

Lacombe: 12 (-1)

Ponoka County: 35 (-2)

Brazeau County: 4 (–)

Clearwater County: 7 (-1)

Mountain View County: 3 (–)

Olds: 4 (–)

Kneehill County: 4 (-1)

County of Stettler: 4 (–)

The Central Zone as a whole has 205 active cases, down 13 from Sunday, and 20 hospitalizations (down one), including seven in the ICU at Red Deer Regional Hospital. There have been 165 deaths in the zone linked to COVID-19.

Across the province, Alberta reported just 60 new cases on Monday out of 2,833 test results for a positivity rate of 2.1 per cent. It’s the first time since Oct. 2 that Alberta has reported fewer than 100 new COVID cases in a single day and the lowest one-day increase since August.

Active cases are down 124 to 2,003. Seventy-two per cent of them (1,443) are variant cases of concern.

There are 214 Albertans in hospital because of COVID-19, same as Sunday, and 56 in intensive care, up three.

Two new deaths linked to COVID-19 was reported in the last 24 hours to bring the province’s total to 2,292.

Alberta has delivered 3,804,700 vaccine doses as of June 19. 70.7 percent of Alberta’s eligible 12+ population has received at least one dose (60.2% total population) and 29.2 percent are fully vaccinated (24.9% total population).

27,065 doses were administered in Alberta yesterday, including 24,145 second doses and 2,920 first doses.

In Red Deer, 57,619 people have received at least one dose while 28,366 are fully vaccinated with two doses.

by Troy Gillard

Alberta reports just 60 new COVID cases, Red Deer adds five

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