Alberta Covid News Cases
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Alberta covid news cases. 1,077 cases were confirmed across the province, bringing the total to 51,878. There are now 13,719 active cases in the province, an increase of 370. The deaths were a man in his 90s and a woman in her 80s linked to the outbreak at the edmonton general care centre, and a woman in her 80s linked.
These decisions included the aggressive public health measures we put in place this spring to help limit the spread of the virus. Of those cases, 41,182 people have recovered, or nearly 70.7 per cent of all cases. Five new deaths were also reported, bringing the provincial death toll to 357.
A total of 575 albertans have died. Alberta had 1,386 active cases aug. Numbers posted to the alberta health website saturday afternoon show the province added 1,026 new cases over the past 24 hours.
Alberta’s chief medical officer of health dr. Over the weekend, alberta broke the 1,700 mark for new daily cases, with a total of more than 5,000 cases being reported in the past three days. Alberta also hit a new high in active cases thursday, reaching 17,743 infections.
Of those, 14,052 cases are active while 37,216 people have recovered. The positivity rate for sunday was 8.5 per cent after more than 20,300 albertans were tested for the. Another 14 deaths were recorded over the weekend — five on saturday and nine on sunday.
The first case was announced on march 5. This helped us make decisions and prepare hospitals to care for critical and acute patients. The new cases came from about 18,400 tests, about a 9.1 per cent positivity rate.