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By Connor Gunn

20 new COVID cases in Lethbridge Thursday, 505 provincially

Mar 18, 2021 | 4:10 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – Alberta Health Services has released its update on COVID-19 for Thursday, covering statistics compiled over the past 24 hours.

505 cases were confirmed across the province, bringing the total to 140,127. Of those, 5,084 cases are active while 133,086 people have recovered.

In the South Zone, 42 people tested positive including 20 in Lethbridge. After being relatively quiet for some time, there were four new cases in the Crowsnest Pass.

Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw addressed the growing cases in Lethbridge and its surrounding areas.

She explains that many of the cases in the city have come from “family gatherings and visitation between households, people with mild symptoms who do not stay home or get tested right away, or faith gatherings where masking and distancing is not happening.”

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Since yesterday’s update, one Albertan has died from COVID. The death in the South Zone was for a man in his 60’s from North Lethbridge.

Provincially, 264 patients are currently hospitalized including 43 who have been admitted to intensive care.

With another 10,934 tests conducted over the past day, there has now been a total of 3,564,100 tests completed on 1,863,885 different people.

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.

Graph from Alberta Health Services

Since yesterday’s report, 91 new cases of the U.K. variant of COVID-19 were confirmed in Alberta.

Below is a breakdown of cases per regional health zone:

• Edmonton Zone – 55,327 cases, 1,231 active
  • 87 in hospital, 11 in ICU
  • 994 deaths
• Calgary Zone – 53,621 cases, 1,972 active
  • 90 in hospital, 15 in ICU
  • 599 deaths
• North Zone – 12,938 cases, 774 active
  • 31 in hospital, three in ICU
  • 142 deaths (one new)
• Central Zone – 10,800 cases, 475 active
  • 30 in hospital, six in ICU
  • 120 deaths
• South Zone – 7,279 cases, 647 active
  • 27 in hospital, seven in ICU
  • 102 deaths (one new)

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

• Lethbridge – 2,676 cases (20 new), 464 active, 28 deaths (one new)
  • North Lethbridge – 925 cases (four new), 195 active, six deaths (one new)
  • South Lethbridge – 890 cases (eight new), 145 active, 19 deaths
  • West Lethbridge – 861 cases (eight new), 125 active, three deaths
• Brooks – 1,365 cases, two active, 14 deaths
• Cardston County – 715 cases (six new), 96 active, 13 deaths
• Medicine Hat – 566 cases, seven active, 17 deaths
• Lethbridge County – 568 cases (four new), 19 active, seven deaths
• M.D. of Taber – 346 cases (two new), six active, six deaths
• M.D. of Pincher Creek – 235 cases (one new), 18 active, five deaths
• County of Warner – 177 cases (one new), 15 active, three deaths
• County of Newell – 161 cases (one new), one active, two deaths
• Cypress County – 146 cases, one active, zero deaths
• County of Forty Mile – 121 cases (two new), three active, three deaths
• Fort Macleod – 114 cases (three new), 10 active, four deaths
• Crowsnest Pass – 28 cases (four new), four active, zero deaths