By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

FRIDAY UPDATE

Red Deer with 85 active cases of COVID-19, most since June 16

Aug 13, 2021 | 3:54 PM

Red Deer now sits at 85 active cases of COVID-19, up nine since Thursday.

The city’s total number of recorded cases is up 12 to 5,896, while recoveries are up three to 5,768.

Red Deer’s death toll stemming from COVID-19 remains 43, with the last one reported July 6.

LOOK BACK: On this day one year ago, there were 67 total cases of COVID-19 recorded in the city, with 10 active and zero deaths.

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Active cases across Central Zone (one-day change)

Red Deer County: 17 (+1)

Sylvan Lake: 28 (–)

Lacombe County: 16 (-1)

Lacombe: 16 (-1)

Ponoka County: 20 (+5)

Brazeau County: 8 (+1)

Clearwater County: 15 (-3)

Mountain View County: 14 (+2)

Olds: 7 (+1)

Kneehill County: 7 (–)

County of Stettler: 17 (–)

The Central Zone as a whole has 313 active cases as of Friday, up 21 from Thursday. There are 15 hospitalizations, up down three, with four people receiving intensive care at Red Deer Regional Hospital, down one. The Central Zone has had 171 deaths linked to COVID-19, with none reported today.

The zone’s one-day positivity rate is 7.14 per cent with 546 tests done.

PROVINCIAL NUMBERS

Across Alberta, another 582 new cases of COVID-19 were announced Friday out of 9,300 tests. That makes for a seven-day positivity rate of 5.63 per cent (up from 3.99% one week ago).

Active cases across the province are up 337 to 4,438. A week ago, active cases totalled 2,719.

Of the active cases, 3,575 are variants of concern, or 80.1 per cent. (Variant case numbers are not updated daily like most other data)

There are 152 Albertans hospitalized due to the virus, up six, including 37 in intensive care, up one.

Of those in hospital, 77.6 per cent have not received a dose of vaccine, while another 7.2 per cent have received just one dose.

The province’s death toll is now listed as 2,332, which is up one from yesterday.

VACCINATIONS

On the vaccine front, Alberta has now administered 5,423,834 doses, up 8,337 in the last day

76.7 (+0.1) per cent of Alberta’s eligible 12+ population has received at least one dose (65.2% total population), and 67.5 (+0.1) per cent of those eligible are fully vaccinated (57.4% total population).

In Red Deer, 61,866 (67.5% of eligible & 58.1% *total population) people have received at least one dose, up 56 in the last day. Meanwhile, 54,952 (59.9%/51.6%) are fully vaccinated with two doses, up 132. (*Government of Alberta uses a population of 106,395 for Red Deer; of those 91,672 are eligible)