By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

saturday update

Alberta adds 207 variant cases, Red Deer up to 193 active

Mar 27, 2021 | 3:51 PM

Red Deer added 23 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, and now sits at 193 active cases, up 15 from Friday.

There have also now been 2,853 recoveries, an increase of eight.

The city has recorded a total of 3,080 cases and 34 deaths since the pandemic began. The current active caseload is the highest since there were 195 on March 9, which was before it dipped as low as 93 on March 16.

Alberta added 668 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday with a positivity rate of ~5.8 per cent and 11,522 tests completed.

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The number of active cases in the province is 7,366, up 289. Recoveries are up 378 to a total of 136,350. There have been a total of 145,696 confirmed cases.

There are now 283 Albertans in hospital due to COVID-19, down one from Friday, including 65 in intensive care, up six. Those figures represent a two-day decrease of 11 and increase of 10, respectively.

One additional COVID-19-linked death was reported to Alberta Health in the last 24 hours to bring the province’s total to 1,980. The death involved a female in her 80s and occurred on March 25. It is linked to an outbreak at Churchill Manor in Edmonton Zone.

As of Saturday, there have been 2,833 variant cases of COVID-19 in the province, a one-day increase of 207, all of them the U.K. version. There have been 408 variant cases, up 24, identified in Central Zone, all of them the U.K. version.

Alberta has administered 577,223 doses of COVID-19 vaccine as of March 26, up 18,460 in the last day.

Active cases across Central Zone as of Saturday

Red Deer County: 27 (+3)

Sylvan Lake: 34 (+5)

Lacombe County: 46 (+2)

City of Lacombe: 43 (–)

Ponoka County: 114 (-1)

Clearwater County: 10 (-4)

Brazeau County: 13 (–)

Mountain View County: 14 (+5)

Olds: 14 (–)

Kneehill County: 6 (–)

County of Stettler: 7 (-3)

The Central Zone has 670 active cases, up 16 from Friday. There are 33 hospitalizations in the zone, down two, and there are six people receiving intensive care for COVID-19 at Red Deer Regional Hospital, up one. The zone has recorded 122 deaths, none of which were reported today.

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