Province adds 70 variant cases, Red Deer down to 115 active
Alberta added 474 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday with a positivity rate of ~5.3 per cent and 8,873 tests completed.
The number of active cases in the province is 4,594, up 48. Recoveries are up 421 to a total of 131,502. There have been a total of 138,036 confirmed cases.
There are now 254 Albertans in hospital due to COVID-19, down three from Friday, including 35 in intensive care, down three.
Five additional COVID-19 deaths were also reported to Alberta Health in the last 24 hours to bring the province’s total to 1,940. The deaths occurred between March 10-12, with four in Edmonton Zone and one in Central Zone.