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By Justin Goulet

1,731 new cases of COVID-19 in Alberta Sunday, one new death in South Zone

May 2, 2021 | 4:23 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – Following a record number of new COVID-19 cases, Alberta saw under 2,000 new infections on Sunday.

Alberta Health Services (AHS) has released its latest statistics compiled over the last 24 hours.

1,731 new cases were reported for the province, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Alberta to 194,898. There are currently 22,920 active cases.

14,215 of those active cases are variants of concern. This means variant cases make up 62 per cent of all active infections in Alberta.

The province has the highest active case rate in Canada, with 508 active cases per 100,000 people – which is twice that of the next highest case rate of 252 in Ontario.

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648 people are in Alberta hospitals, with 155 individuals in intensive care (ICU).

Three new deaths were reported Sunday, bringing the provincial death toll from the virus to 2,086. Two of the deaths were in the Calgary Zone, with one in the South.

The South Health Zone death was in Lethbridge County. LNN has requested more information on this.

On the testing front, 4,193,683 tests have been completed in Alberta, with 2,047,940 people tested in total. On May 1, 16,567 tests were conducted.

Below is a breakdown of cases per health zone:

• Calgary Zone – 77,599 cases, 9,556 active
  • 243 in hospital, 64 in ICU
  • 634 deaths (two new)
• Edmonton Zone – 69,154 cases, 6,088 active
  • 235 in hospital, 61 in ICU
  • 1,040 deaths
• North Zone – 20,809 cases, 3,308 active
  • 81 in hospital, 15 in ICU
  • 158 deaths
• Central Zone – 16,633 cases, 2,677 active
  • 53 in hospital, nine in ICU
  • 135 deaths
• South Zone – 10,609 cases, 1,216 active
  • 36 in hospital, six in ICU
  • 119 deaths (one new)

There are 94 cases (75 active) in zones that are ‘unknown’.

Below is a breakdown of cases in the South:

• Lethbridge – 4,274 cases (30 new), 430 active, 36 deaths
  • West Lethbridge – 1,537 cases (12 new), 150 active, three deaths
  • North Lethbridge – 1,433 cases (six new), 144 active, nine deaths
  • South Lethbridge – 1,304 cases (12 new), 136 active, 24 deaths
• Brooks – 1,414 cases (four new), 43 active, 14 deaths
• Lethbridge County – 1,010 cases (11 new), 159 active, 12 deaths (one new)
• Cardston County – 907 cases (seven new), 55 active, 16 deaths
• Medicine Hat – 935 cases (14 new), 212 active, 18 deaths
• M.D. of Taber – 503 cases (five new), 43 active, five deaths
• M.D. of Pincher Creek – 276 cases (one new), 14 active, five deaths
• County of Warner – 340 cases (15 new), 107 active, three deaths
• Cypress County – 229 cases, 38 active, zero deaths
• Fort Macleod – 244 cases (12 new), 65 active, five deaths
• County of Newell – 180 cases, seven active, two deaths
• County of Forty Mile – 149 cases (two new), 13 active, three deaths
• Crowsnest Pass – 57 cases, 22 active, zero deaths
• Waterton – one case, zero active, zero deaths

On Monday, May 3, all Grade 7-12 students in “hotspots” across Alberta will have their classes moved online.

That was one of the new COVID-19 measures announced by Premier Jason Kenney last week to help curb the spread of the virus in “hotspot” regions in the province.

Those “hotspots” are Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Airdrie, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie and Strathcona County.

More details on the latest measures are available here.

Additionally, it was announced earlier on Sunday the spring sitting of the Alberta Legislature would be temporarily suspended due to the rise in COVID-19 cases across the province.

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The suspension will be on for at least two weeks, on until May 17.