By Troy Gillard

WEDNESDAY UPDATE

Red Deer with 385 active COVID-19 cases

Dec 9, 2020 | 4:00 PM

Alberta reported another 1,460 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.

That’s out of 16,792 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of nearly 8.7 per cent.

Alberta has now seen 73,488 total cases since the onset of the pandemic.

The number of active cases in the province sits at 20,199, which is a decrease of 189.

There are now 52,636 recovered cases in the province, an increase of 1,636 from Tuesday.

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Another 15 deaths related to COVID-19 were reported to bring Alberta’s total to 653.

There are 685 people in hospital because of COVID-19, an increase of 31, including 121 in intensive care, an increase of nine.

In Red Deer, the number of active COVID-19 cases has risen to 385, an increase of 12 from Monday. Recovered cases are up by 17 to 476 as the total number of cases attributed to the city rose by 29 to 861.

Red Deer County has seen its active case count rise by one to sit at 98, while Sylvan Lake held steady with 66.

Clearwater County (Rocky Mountain House) has 59 active cases, a decrease of three.

Lacombe County has 66 active cases as of Wednesday, an decrease of five, while Lacombe held steady with 46.

Ponoka County saw its active case count drop by 25 to sit at 181.

Mountain View County has 27 active cases, Olds has 29, and Kneehill County has 15. Starland County has three active cases, while the County of Stettler remains with 20.

There are now 1,500 active cases across the Central zone and 56 hospitalizations, including six in intensive care. The Central zone has now recorded 23 deaths related to COVID-19, including three over the past 24 hours – a female in her 60s (comorbidities unknown), a male in his 90s linked to the outbreak at Rosealta Lodge in Camrose (involving comorbidities), and a man in his 90s linked to the outbreak at St. Joseph’s General Hospital in Vegreville (comorbidities unknown).

There are currently 249 schools in the province where outbreaks have been declared. Alberta Health’s threshold for declaring an outbreak in school is two cases being in a school while infectious within 14 days. This includes 10 schools in Red Deer, including four schools under ‘Watch’ status for having or more cases where disease could have been acquired or transmitted in the school.

(Source: Alberta Health)

Other outbreaks currently in effect in the Central zone include:

Long-term care facilities:

– Covenant Care Villa Marie, Red Deer

Supportive living/home living sites:

– Centennial Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury, Ponoka

– Points West Living, Red Deer

– Revera Aspen Ridge, Red Deer

– The Hamlets of Red Deer

Other facilities:

– Olymel, Red Deer