By Troy Gillard

THURSDAY UPDATE

Red Deer records another death from COVID-19, active cases up four

Apr 14, 2021 | 4:18 PM

Red Deer has recorded another death from COVID-19.

The death of a man in his 80s on April 12 is the city’s 35^th of the pandemic and is linked to the outbreak at Extendicare Michener Hill.

The number of active COVD-19 cases in Red Deer as of Wednesday sits at 279, up four from Tuesday.

Recoveries are up to 3,107, an increase of 18 as the total number of COVID-19 cases attributed to Red Deer rose by 23 to 3,421.

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Elsewhere locally as of Wednesday (by municipality):

Red Deer County – 72 active cases

Sylvan Lake – 38

Lacombe County – 69

Lacombe – 63

Ponoka County – 173

Brazeau County – 34

Clearwater County – 12

Mountain View County – 58

Olds – 54

Stettler and County – 11

The Central Zone as a whole has 1,402 active cases as of Wednesday and 39 hospitalizations, including six in the ICU at Red Deer Regional Hospital. The zone has now had 127 deaths stemming from COVID-19, including a total of three reported over the past 24 hours.

Across the province, there are 15,569 active cases, up 482 from Tuesday, and 146,933 recovered cases, up 922.

There are 1,412 total new cases in the province today. Alberta’s total case count from the start of the pandemic now stands at 164,531.

The province completed 15,738 tests in the past 24 hours. The positivity rate is about 9.1 per cent.

There have been 12,932 variant cases identified in the province, including 778 today.

8,197 active cases (52.6 per cent of total) have been identified as variants of concern.

There are now 420 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 92 of which are in ICU, and 2,029 deaths.

An updated number of vaccine doses administered was not immediately available.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw will provide another update later this week.

On Wednesday, the province announced that students in Grades 7 to 12 in the Calgary Board of Education and the Calgary Catholic School District will move to at-home learning starting April 19 for two weeks.

The province says the decision to approve a school board’s request to shift to at-home learning for operational considerations was based on four criteria: a chronic substitute teacher shortage, a significant number of students and staff in quarantine or isolation, recent requests from the board for short-term shifts for a number of their schools, and substantial COVID-19 cases in the community.

(With file from Chris Brown – CHAT News Today)