PROVINCIAL NUMBERS
*Numbers are up to date as of previous day’s end.
Hospitalizations: 1,164 1,231 (-67)
ICU admissions: 77 (-7)
Deaths: 3,954 (+8) Nine deaths were reported to Alberta Health in the last 24 hours. However, please note that one previously reported COVID death was determined to be non-COVID; as a result, the total death count increases by eight today.
*With the province limiting testing in the fifth wave and lifting restrictions on March 1, these confirmed cases do not accurately reflect the number of cases in the community.
Total cases: 527,604 (+1,041)
Total recoveries: 516,004 (+1,544)
Active caseload: 7,646 (-518)
Seven-day positivity rate: 20.61% (-0.21)
Tests completed 2,492 (Mar. 3)
RED DEER
*Numbers are up to date as of previous day’s end.
Total cases: 13,444 (+45)
Total recoveries: 13,060 (+47)
Active caseload: 288 (-3)
Deaths: 96 (+1)
CENTRAL ZONE
*Numbers are up to date as of previous day’s end.
Hospitalizations: 140 (-2)
ICU admissions: 6 (+1)
Active caseload: 1,075 (-80)
Deaths: 498 (+3)
Active cases elsewhere in the zone
Red Deer County: 49 (-17)
Sylvan Lake: 27 (-3)
Lacombe County: 29 (-3)
City of Lacombe: 59 (+23)
Ponoka County: 71 (-20)
For more data from central Alberta communities, click here.
VACCINATIONS – With the slow in vaccination rate growth, rdnewsNOW has decided to update these numbers once per week only, on Tuesday.
