By Troy Gillard

Thursday update

Red Deer down to 196 active COVID-19 cases

Jan 14, 2021 | 5:09 PM

Alberta reported another 967 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.

That’s out of 16,219 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of 5.8 per cent.

There are now 12,434 active cases in Alberta, down 404 from Wednesday. The province recorded another 1,350 recoveries on Thursday for a total of 100,762.

The number of Albertans hospitalized due to COVID-19 sits at 806, a decrease of 14. That includes 136 people in intensive care, one less than Wednesday.

Another 21 deaths from COVID-19 were reported Thursday to bring Alberta’s total to 1,389.

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As of Jan. 13, 66,953 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Alberta. This is 1,514.1 doses per 100,000 population.

In Red Deer, the number of active cases as of Thursday sits at 196, down 20 from Wednesday. It’s the first time there has been fewer than 200 active cases in the city since Nov. Nov. 29 when 191 were reported.

There have been 1,450 recoveries, an increase of 33 as the total number of COVID-19 cases attributed to the city rose by 13 to 1,659. The number of COVID-19 deaths in Red Deer remains 13.

Red Deer County has 40 active cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, down four, while Sylvan Lake has 32, an increase of four.

There are 71 active cases in Clearwater County (Rocky Mountain House), an increase of eight.

Lacombe County has 29 active cases, unchanged from Wednesday, and the city of Lacombe has 31, down three.

Ponoka County saw its active case count go from 409 on Wednesday to 345 on Thursday, a decrease of 61.

Mountain View County has 22 active cases, same as Wednesday, Olds has 25, down three, and Kneehill County is down two to sit with nine. Stettler and County has six active cases, a decrease of one.

The Central Zone has 1,152 active cases as of Thursday, a decrease of 123, with 75 hospitalizations, a decrease of five. There are 15 people in intensive care at Red Deer Regional Hospital, an increase of one.

One additional COVID-19 death was reported in the Central Zone on Thursday (a man in his 50s on Jan. 12, a case involving comorbidities), bringing the total to 65.