Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw. (Government of Alberta)

By David Opinko

113 new COVID-19 infections confirmed in South Health Zone Thursday

Apr 30, 2020 | 4:27 PM

EDMONTON, AB – The Government of Alberta has released its latest set of statistics on COVID-19 cases around the province.

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190 new infections were announced Thursday, bringing the provincial total to 5,355.

Another two people in the South Health Zone have died as a result of the virus, but at the time of publication, we are still waiting to learn where exactly in the region these patients were from. There was also one new fatality in the Edmonton Zone.

At the same time, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw clarified that one death that was previously said to be the result of COVID-19 is no longer the case. This means that 89 Albertans have succumbed to COVID-19 to date.

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148,937 people have been tested, which was boosted in part to the asymptomatic testing event in Brooks this week that saw nearly 3,700 people without any symptoms getting tested.

2,161 patients have fully recovered.

At the Cargill meatpacking plant in High River, 908 employees there have contracted the virus, but 631 of those have fully recovered. For JBS in Brooks, 333 have tested positive.

COVID-19 has affected 544 residents and employees in continuing care centres. Additional measures to protect them were announced in Wednesday’s update.

The breakdown by regional health zone is as follows:

• Calgary zone – 3,590 cases, 57 deaths
  • 62,679 tests
• South zone – 946 cases, six deaths (two new)
  • 10,974 tests
• Edmonton zone – 490 cases, 12 deaths (one new)
  • 41,615 tests
• North zone – 211 cases, 14 deaths
  • 11,005 tests
• Central zone – 85 cases, one death
  • 11,896 tests

The breakdown for the South Health Zone by community is as follows:

• Brooks – 872 cases (109 new), 55 recovered, four deaths
• Medicine Hat – 29 cases, 15 recovered
• Lethbridge – 13 cases, 10 recovered
  • West Lethbridge – seven cases, five recovered
  • South Lethbridge – six cases, five recovered
• County of Newell – 11 cases (two new)
• Cypress County – eight cases, five recovered
• Cardston-Kainai – three cases (one new)
• M.D. of Taber – two cases, two recovered
• County of Forty Mile – two cases, two recovered
• Lethbridge County – one case, one recovered