By Sheldon Spackman

Tuesday Update

Province releases estimated COVID numbers following long weekend

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PROVINCIAL NUMBERS

*Update for February 22, 2022: Full reporting is unavailable due to technical issues. Estimated numbers will be provided today and full reporting will resume tomorrow, including a daily breakdown of cases from Friday to Monday. Vaccine data and outbreak reporting have not been impacted.

Hospitalizations: 1,380

ICU admissions: 95

Deaths: 3,830 (as of Feb. 17)

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Total cases: 519,970 (as of Feb. 17)

Total recoveries: 500,756 (as of Feb. 17)

Active caseload: 15,384 (as of Feb. 17) 760 Feb. 18, 475 Feb. 19, 475 Feb. 20, 400 Feb. 21.

*With the province limiting testing in the fifth wave, these confirmed cases do not accurately reflect the number of cases in the community.

Tests completed: N/A

Seven-day positivity rate: 25.88%

RED DEER

*Update for February 22, 2022: Full reporting is unavailable due to technical issues. Full reporting will resume tomorrow, including a daily breakdown of cases from Friday to Monday. Vaccine data and outbreak reporting have not been impacted. Numbers listed are as of Feb. 17.

Total cases: 13,160

Total recoveries: 12,627

Active caseload: 442

Deaths: 91 last death reported Feb. 17, 2022

CENTRAL ZONE

*Numbers are as of Feb. 17.

Hospitalizations: 160

ICU admissions: 8

Active caseload: 1,933

Deaths: 478

Death details: N/A

Elsewhere in the zone (Numbers as of Feb. 17)

Red Deer County: 150

Sylvan Lake: 80

Lacombe County: 75

City of Lacombe: 54

Ponoka County: 242

For more data from central Alberta communities, click here.

VACCINATIONS

*With vaccination rates slowing, rdnewsNOW has decided to update these numbers once per week only, on Tuesday. Updated numbers were unavailable on Feb. 22.

For more vaccination date, visit alberta.ca/covid19.