(Alberta Health)

By Troy Gillard

FRIDAY UPDATE

Red Deer with 408 active COVID-19 cases as of Friday

Dec 11, 2020 | 3:43 PM

Alberta reported another 1,738 cases of COVID-19 on Friday.

That’s out of 20,957 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of about 8.3 per cent.

The province has 20,161 active cases as of Friday, a decrease of three.

There are now 55,947 recovered cases in the province, an increase of 1,722 from Thursday.

There are now 684 people hospitalized in the province because of the novel coronavirus, an increase of two, including 123 people who are receiving intensive care, one less than Thursday.

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Another 18 deaths related to COVID-19 were reported to bring Alberta’s total to 684.

In Red Deer, the number of active COVID-19 cases rose by 22 to 408. Recovered cases are up by 30 to 539 as the total number of cases attributed to the city rose by 52 to 947.

Red Deer County saw its active case count remain rise from 98 to 105, while Sylvan Lake saw its drop by one to sit at 60.

Clearwater County (Rocky Mountain House) has 69 active cases, an decrease of six.

Lacombe County has 65 active cases as of Friday, an increase of one, while Lacombe’s fell by six to 39.

Ponoka County saw its active case count rise by 12 to sit at 189.

Mountain View County has 28 active cases, Olds has 27 and Kneehill County has 12. Starland County has three active cases, while the County of Stettler has 20.

There are now 1,502 active cases across the Central zone, an increase of 22 from Thursday, and 58 hospitalizations, an increase of three. There are five people in the zone currently in intensive care. The Central zone has had 23 deaths related to COVID-19, which is unchanged over the last 24 hours.

Concerned that Albertans may be tuning out the messaging from the government and Alberta Health Services after nine months, a new marketing campaign has been launched.

These ads feature a personified character representing COVID-19 at gatherings and various other social situations,” said Dr. Deena Hinshaw. “Our goal is to get people’s attention, to help them see common situations from a different perspective and as a result to influence their behaviour.”

Hinshaw explained the campaign uses humour and that they must use every tool at their disposal to reach Albertans, adding lives depend on bending down the curve and reducing the spread.

Taglines in the videos include “Nobody loves a house party more than COVID” and “Nobody loves a holiday gathering more than COVID.”