Red Deer down to 409 active COVID-19 cases

Officially, Alberta Health is reporting 78 active cases linked to the Olymel outbreak, down from 91 yesterday, 435 recovered cases and two deaths (down from three as was previously reported) out of 515 total cases.

Alberta announced another 402 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. That’s out of 10,362 test results for a positivity rate of 3.9 per cent.

The number of active cases in the province is 4,649, an increase of 18 from Tuesday. Recoveries are up 372 to a total of 127,903.

There are now 251 Albertans in hospital due to COVID-19, down 10 from Tuesday, including 48 in intensive care, down six.

Twelve additional COVID-19 deaths were also reported to Alberta Health in the last 24 hours to bring the province’s total to 1,902.

As of Wednesday, there have been 508 total variant cases of COVID-19 in the province, an increase of 16 over the past day, including 500 cases of the UK variant (114 in Central Zone).

Alberta has administered 255,283 doses of COVID-19 vaccine as of March 2.

Active cases across Central Zone as of Wednesday:

Red Deer County: 25 (-2)

Sylvan Lake: 18 (–)

Lacombe County: 32 (+2)

City of Lacombe: 15 (–)

Ponoka County: 45 (+3)

Clearwater County: 7 (+2)

Brazeau County: 3 (–)

Mountain View County: 23 (+2)

Olds: 6 (–)

Kneehill County: 5 (-1)

County of Stettler: 1 (–)

The Central Zone has 590 active cases, down 46 from Tuesday, and 32 hospitalizations. Eleven people are receiving intensive care for COVID-19 at Red Deer Regional Hospital. The zone has had 112 COVID-related deaths, none of which were reported to Alberta Health over the past 24 hours.

by Troy Gillard

Red Deer down to 409 active COVID-19 cases

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