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THURSDAY UPDATE

Red Deer down to 5 active COVID-19 cases, Alberta adds 14

Oct 1, 2020 | 4:02 PM

Red Deer is down to five active cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday.

The number of recoveries in the city is – correspondingly – up one to 105 as the total number of cases in Red Deer remains 110.

Red Deer County has three active cases, while Lacombe County has one. The city of Lacombe now has two active cases, an increase of one. Ponoka County and Mountain View County each have four active cases, while Olds has one.

There are a total of 19 active cases in the Central zone.

Across the province there were 173 new cases of COVID-19 reported on Thursday.

The total number of COVID-19 cases across the province stands at 18,235. There are 1,596 active cases, up 14 from Wednesday, and 16,370 recovered cases, up 157.

There are currently 64 Albertans in hospital, 12 in ICU. There have been 269 deaths, an increase of two from Wednesday.

The province conducted 14,678 tests in the past 24 hours.