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

By David Opinko

Active COVID cases have grown since Alberta’s relaunch started

Jun 19, 2020 | 3:52 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – The Government of Alberta is pleading with the public to be careful.

It has been around a month since Stage 1 of the relaunch strategy started and a week since Stage 2 began.

Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw says, in the last few weeks, the number of active COVID-19 infections grew by 173.

“It means that the virus is still here and it isn’t going anywhere. It also means that, even if we are feeling healthy and symptom-free, we all need to continue operating as though we could spread the virus to others and could catch it from those around us.”

She adds that this was expected as more people have gone back to work and interacting with others in person.

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There are some positives, however.

Hospitalization rates have gone down slightly in the last two weeks and active cases in continuing care centres have fallen to just 26.

In Friday’s report, 48 new cases were confirmed, bringing the total to 7,625. Of those, 512 cases are still active while 6,961 people have recovered.

There was only one additional infection in the South Health Zone, which was in Cardston County.

No more Albertans have died from COVID-19 but 39 people remain in hospital as well as six in intensive care units (ICU).

In just the last 24 hours, approximately 9,000 tests for the virus were conducted. To date, there have been 373,724 COVID-19 tests in Alberta.

The regional breakdown is as follows:

• Calgary zone – 5,162 cases, 233 active
  • 111 deaths
  • 21 in hospital, three in ICU
• South zone – 1,288 cases, 30 active
  • 10 deaths
  • One in hospital
• Edmonton zone – 794 cases, 211 active
  • 14 deaths
  • 12 in hospital, two in ICU
• North zone – 277 cases, 32 active
  • 16 deaths
  • Three in hospital, one in ICU
• Central zone – 89 cases, three active
  • One death

As for the breakdown for the South Health Zone, the province recently changed the way they display information on the geospatial map, which is how we get the information for this. Due to this change, some of the local numbers may be off from what we have previously reported.

• Brooks – 1,120 cases, three active, nine deaths
• Medicine Hat – 36 cases, zero active
• Lethbridge – 36 cases, six active
  • South Lethbridge – 14 cases, one active
  • West Lethbridge – 14 cases, one active
  • North Lethbridge – Eight cases, four active
• Cardston County – 38 cases (one new), 15 active, one death
• Cypress County – 21 cases, zero active
• County of Newell – 20 cases, zero active
• Fort Macleod – Nine cases, three active
• Lethbridge County – Three cases, three active
• M.D. of Taber – Two cases, zero active
• County of Forty Mile – Two cases, zero active