By Sheldon Spackman

Tuesday Update

Red Deer with 337 active COVID-19 cases

Aug 31, 2021 | 4:55 PM

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Red Deer has increased by 11 over the past day, bringing the total number of active cases in the city now to 337.

Recoveries increased by 23 to 5,911, while the number of cases identified in the city since the start of the pandemic is 6,291 – up 34 from Monday.

The virus’ death toll in Red Deer remains at 43, with the last one reported July 6.

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Red Deer County: 120 (+17)

Sylvan Lake: 58 (-1)

Lacombe County: 109 (+22)

Lacombe: 38 (-3)

Ponoka County: 65 (+5)

Brazeau County: 48 (+4)

Clearwater County: 80 (-7)

Mountain View County: 101 (+4)

Olds: 78 (+2)

Kneehill County: 29 (+6)

County of Stettler: 56 (+7)

The Central Zone as a whole has 1,385 active cases as of Tuesday, up 81 from Monday. There are 54 hospitalizations, up 11 from Monday, with 11 people receiving intensive care at Red Deer Regional Hospital, down one from Monday.

The Central Zone has had 182 deaths linked to COVID-19 to this point, up one from Monday.

PROVINCIAL NUMBERS

Across Alberta, another 920 new cases of COVID-19 were announced on Tuesday, bringing the total number of active cases across the province now to 11,660 – up 234 from Monday.

With 7,487 tests conducted over the past three days, the test positivity rate is roughly 12.3 per cent.

Of the active cases, 9,535 are variants of concern, or 81.7 per cent of all active cases.

There are 431 Albertans currently in hospital with COVID-19, up 30 from Monday, with 106 of those patients in ICU, up eight from Monday.

There have been 4 additional deaths reported to Alberta Health in the last 24 hours, bringing the province’s death toll due to COVID-19 to 2,375 as of Aug. 31.

• Date of death: 8/27/2021. A female in her 90s in South zone. .
• Date of death: 8/29/2021. A male in his 70s in Central zone.
• Date of death: 8/30/2021. A male in his 80s in Calgary zone.
• Date of death: 8/30/2021. A female in her 50s in Edmonton zone.

There are currently 3,660 active cases of COVID-19 in the Edmonton zone, 3,176 in the Calgary zone, 2,191 in the North zone, 1,214 in the South zone, and 34 additional cases in unconfirmed locations.

VACCINATIONS

Alberta has now administered 5,559,321 doses of COVID-19 vaccine as of Aug. 30.

As a result, 78.0 per cent of Albertans aged 12+ now have at least one dose (66.3% total population), while 69.8 per cent of Albertans aged 12+ are now fully vaccinated (59.4% total population).

As of Aug. 30, 68.8 per cent of eligible Red Deerians have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, which represents 59.3 per cent of the city’s total population.

62.2 per cent of eligible Red Deerians are now fully vaccinated with two doses, which represents 53.6 per cent of the city’s total population.

“Shortly before the government released these numbers, the leadership of AHS told Albertans they will be cancelling more surgeries and closing more beds in order to cope with this flood of fourth-wave patients,” said NDP Health Critic David Shepherd, in a press release Tuesday, in response to the latest numbers.

“Dr. Verna Yiu told Albertans that the strain on the healthcare system is even worse than in the previous three waves due to critical staffing shortages. She said AHS’ internal early warning systems are tracking moderate to high scenarios with increasing numbers of Albertans in the hospital in the coming weeks. She said ‘the health system can only absorb so much.’

“It’s obvious from Dr. Yiu’s comments that the situation is not stable and it’s not sustainable. It’s not sustainable for patients whose care is being delayed and it’s not sustainable for the healthcare workers who are fighting yet another wave of COVID-19 with absolutely no help from the government.