Red Deer up to 226 active cases, outbreak confirmed at temporary shelter

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Alberta added 1,293 cases of COVID-19 on Saturday with a positivity rate of ~9.0 per cent and 14,371 tests completed.

Active cases now total 13,687, up 628, and of those, 6,529 are variants of concern, up 592. Variants make up 47.7 per cent of all active cases, up 2.2 per cent from Friday, and they have caused 36 deaths, up three from a day ago.

Five additional COVID-19-linked deaths were reported to Alberta Health in the last 24 hours to bring the province’s total to 2,012. Three of the latest deaths were in Calgary Zone, and one each in Edmonton and South Zone. One occurred on April 3 and the rest on April 8.

There are now 349 Albertans in hospital due to COVID-19, up 16 from Friday, including 84 in intensive care, up one.

Alberta has administered 818,689 doses of COVID-19 vaccine as of April 8, while 154,017 Albertans are fully immunized.

Active cases across Central Zone as of Saturday

Red Deer County: 52 (+3)

Sylvan Lake: 31 (+3)

Lacombe County: 58 (+1)

City of Lacombe: 48 (–)

Ponoka County: 195 (+13)

Clearwater County: 9 (–)

Brazeau County: 27(+3)

Mountain View County: 42 (+2)

Olds: 40 (+7)

Kneehill County: 22 (+3)

County of Stettler: 8 (+1)

The Central Zone has 1,124 active cases, up 74 from Friday. There are 30 hospitalizations in the zone, up two, and there are eight people receiving intensive care for COVID-19 at Red Deer Regional Hospital, the same as yesterday. The zone has recorded 123 deaths, none of which were reported today.

Meantime, the zone has 655 active cases confirmed to be variants, up 85, and two Central Zone residents have died from a variant. In the last day, the zone added 108 variant cases, up to 1,106.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw will give her next live update early next week.

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