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In the South Zone, there were an additional 29 Covid cases, with 288 active cases.

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Since yesterday’s update, Elven Albertans died from COVID including five in the Edmonton Zone, three in the Central Zone, two in the Calgary Zone, and one in the South Zone, specifically the Cardston area. To date, the virus has claimed the lives of 1,684 people in Alberta.

Provincially, 517 patients are currently hospitalized and 93 are in intensive care.

There has now been a total of 3,213,391 tests conducted on 1,765,546 different people.

Dr.Hinshaw also noted, there are now 68 COVID variant Cases in the province, with the addition of 11 new cases , all of which of the B.1.1.7 variant. At this time, there is no known link from the eleven cases, to a known connection.

Below is a graph of how COVID-19 cases in Alberta have trended since the start of the pandemic, which can also be accessed with more detail here.

Covid stats

Below is a breakdown of cases per health zone:

• Edmonton Zone – 51,706 cases, 2,147 active, 223 in hospital, 35 in ICU
870 deaths (five new)

• Calgary Zone – 48,070 cases, 2,717 active, 177 in hospital, 39 in ICU
521 deaths (two new)

• North Zone – 10,280 cases, 795 active, 57 in hospital, seven in ICU
115 deaths

• Central Zone – 9,001 cases, 631 active, 46 in hospital, five in ICU
92 deaths (three new)

• South Zone – 5,906 cases, 290 active, 36 in hospital, eight in ICU
73 deaths (one new)

Below is a breakdown of cases in the South Health Zone:

•Brooks – 1,362 cases (one new), two active, 14 deaths

•Lethbridge – 1,754 cases (ten new), 142 active, 13 deaths

West Lethbridge – 624 cases (four new), 38 active, two deaths

South Lethbridge – 603 cases (one new), 63 active, 10 deaths

North Lethbridge – 527 cases (five new), 44 active, one death

•Medicine Hat – 527 cases, 10 active, 14 deaths

•Lethbridge County – 516 cases (one), 20 active, seven deaths

•Cardston County – 504 cases (eleven new), 70 active, seven deaths (one new)

•M.D. of Taber – 331 cases (three new), three active, six deaths

•M.D. of Pincher Creek – 187 cases (two new), 21 active, four deaths

•County of Warner – 157 cases, one active, two deaths

•County of Newell – 159 cases (two new), three active, two deaths

•Cypress County – 145 cases, two active, zero deaths

•County of Forty Mile – 117 cases, zero active, two deaths

•Fort Macleod – 93 cases, two active, three deaths

•Crowsnest Pass – 24 cases, five active, zero deaths