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Health Minister confident in downward trending COVID numbers

May 11, 2022 | 5:09 PM

Beginning the week of March 23, Alberta Health is only sharing new COVID-19 data with the public on Wednesdays, barring extenuating circumstances. rdnewsNOW will continue to report them as they are updated.

Up-to-date COVID-19 stats are below…

The latest data from the province and wastewater tracking appear to show that Red Deer has passed the worst of the latest wave of COVID-19.

Red Deer’s seven-day new case rate per 100,000 people is 103.4, down from 187.0.

With the province limiting testing in the fifth wave and since, these confirmed cases do not accurately reflect the number of cases in the community.

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Health Minister Jason Copping said at the weekly update the province-wide wastewater and transmission data is trending down.

“Most important of all, I’m pleased to report that hospitalizations decreased over the past week, including patients in ICU with COVID,” said Copping.

He said the numbers fluctuate from day-to-day and they won’t necessarily drop in a straight line from here.

“It looks like the peak in hospitalizations was April 26, around two weeks ago,” he added.

There are now 1,225 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 37 of which are in ICU, and 4,391 deaths. Seventy Albertans have died from COVID in the past week.

Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 575,185.

There are 4,379 new cases confirmed in the province over the past seven days.

Again these are only the confirmed cases and do not accurately reflect the number of cases in the province.

Alberta has administered 8,772,287 doses of vaccine at the latest update.

In the last seven days, COVID was the primary or a contributing factor in 63.7 per cent of non-ICU hospitalizations and 79.3 per cent of ICU admissions.

Among current hospitalizations, 19.6 per cent are unvaccinated, 3.6 per cent have had one dose, 27.4 per cent have had two doses and 49.5 per cent have had three doses.

Among Alberta’s total population, 81.3 per cent have received at least one dose of vaccine and 77 per cent have received two doses 37.6 per cent have received three doses.

WATCH TODAY’S UPDATE

PROVINCIAL NUMBERS

*Numbers are up to date as of previous day’s end. Numbers in parentheses represent a seven-day change unless otherwise noted

Hospitalizations: 1,225 (-42)

ICU admissions: 37 (-9)

Deaths: 4,391 (+70)

MORE HEALTHCARE CAPACITY DATA

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*With the province limiting testing since the fifth wave, these confirmed cases do not accurately reflect the number of cases in the community.

Total cases: 575,185

May 3: 764
May 4: 776
May 5: 777
May 6: 689
May 7: 590
May 8: 145
May 9: 820

>> Total new cases over last 7 days: 4,379

>> Last week: 5,754 new cases, two weeks ago: 6,569, three weeks ago: 6,125, four weeks ago: 6,181, five weeks ago: 5,549

Seven-day positivity rate: 20.72% (-2.26)

RED DEER

*Numbers are up to date as of previous day’s end. Numbers in parentheses represent a seven-day change unless otherwise noted

Total cases: 14,970 (+108)

7-day new case rate: 103.4 (-83.6

Deaths: 110 (+2)

CENTRAL ZONE

*Numbers are up to date as of previous day’s end. Numbers in parentheses represent a seven-day change unless otherwise noted

Hospitalizations: 157 (-20)

ICU admissions: 3 (-1)

Deaths: 567 (+13)

Death details: to come…

For more data from central Alberta communities, click here.

VACCINATION DATA

WASTEWATER DATA

INFLUENZA

Cases: 1,023 (+316)
>> Type A: 1,021 (+316)
>> Type B: 2 (–)

Hospitalized: 133 (+65)
ICU: 12 (+9)
Deaths: 3 (+3)

Doses of vaccine administered: 1,207,099 (+675) >> 27.3% coverage

(Story by Chris Brown/CHAT News Today, stats compiled by Josh Hall/rdnewsNOW)