Red Deer up two to 883 active COVID-19 cases

Province-wide, Alberta announced 2,271 new cases on Wednesday. That’s out of 20,494 tests for a positivity rate of 11 per cent.

The province’s active case count sits at a record 24,156, up 533 over the past 24 hours, which includes 14,358 active variant cases (59.4%).

There are 666 hospitalizations because of COVID-19, a decrease of five, including 146 in ICU, down four.

Recoveries sit at 174,666, an increase of 1,235.

Three more deaths were reported in the past 24 hours to bring Alberta’s total linked to COVID-19 to 2,102. The latest deaths were all in the province’s North Zone and include a man in his 20s, man in his 40s and woman in her 30s.

The province has administered 1,694,675 vaccine doses as of May 4.

Elsewhere locally as of Tuesday:

Red Deer County – 210 active cases (632.7 per 100,000)

Sylvan Lake – 157 (921.7)

Lacombe County – 181 (820.7)

Lacombe – 171 (909.5)

Ponoka County – 180 (654)

Brazeau County – 91 (541.5)

Clearwater County – 84 (415.2)

Mountain View County – 90 (390.2)

Olds – 115 (925)

Kneehill County – 67 (551.9)

County of Stettler – 120 (958.5)

The Central Zone has a total of 2,888 active cases as of Wednesday and 63 hospitalizations, including nine in the ICU at Red Deer Regional Hospital. The zone has had 137 deaths linked to COVID-19, including a man in his 60s on April 30.

by Troy Gillard

Red Deer up two to 883 active COVID-19 cases

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