(Alberta Health Services)

By David Opinko

1,191 Albertans hospitalized with COVID

Jan 21, 2022 | 4:07 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – The province has released its latest report on COVID-19 for Friday, partly covering statistics from the past 24 hours.

3,592 cases were confirmed across the province, bringing the total to 466,616. Of those, 61,615 cases are active while 401,572 people have recovered.

It should be noted that, on January 10, the province limited the number of people who can get a PCR test from AHS for COVID-19 to only those in high-risk settings. This likely means that the amount of people who have actually contracted COVID since then would be higher than what is being reported by the province.

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In the South Zone, 676 people tested positive over the last two days for a daily average of 225.

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Over the past three days, 261 people in Lethbridge caught COVID, or 87 each day.

Active infections for the region fell by 129 since Wednesday’s update and by 56 for Lethbridge since Tuesday’s update.

Since Wednesday’s update, 10 people in the Calgary Zone died from COVID as well as seven in the Edmonton Zone and two in the Central Zone. The total number of deaths in the North Zone decreased by two, meaning they might have been reclassified since the original posting.

In the South Zone, there was one new death in South Lethbridge while the number in North Lethbridge fell by one.

To date, 3,429 people in the province have died as a result of COVID.

Provincially, 1,191 patients are currently hospitalized including 107 who have been admitted to intensive care. From our last report on Wednesday, this marks an increase of 90 for hospitalization and a decrease of one for ICU.

Below are graphs showing how COVID-19 in Alberta has trended since the start of the pandemic, which can also be accessed with more detail here.

Active COVID-19 cases in Alberta. (Alberta Health Services)

COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU admissions in Alberta. (Alberta Health Services)

COVID-19 outcomes by vaccination status. (Alberta Health Services)

Below is a breakdown of cases per health zone in Alberta. LNN did not provide a COVID-19 update on Thursday so the regional number reflects changes over the past two days:

• Calgary Zone – 188,189 cases, 29,867 active
  • 463 in hospital, 46 in ICU
  • 917 deaths (10 new)
• Edmonton Zone – 150,359 cases, 21,317 active
  • 503 in hospital, 41 in ICU
  • 1,370 deaths (seven new)
• North Zone – 52,409 cases, 2,911 active
  • 68 in hospital, four in ICU
  • 418 deaths (decreased by two)
• Central Zone – 46,084 cases, 4,064 active
  • 107 in hospital, eight in ICU
  • 425 deaths (two new)
• South Zone – 27,953 cases, 2,904 active
  • 50 in hospital, eight in ICU
  • 299 deaths

Below is a breakdown of cases in the South Health Zone. As the local breakdown was not available Wednesday or Thursday, the numbers in brackets show new cases or deaths over the past three days:

• Lethbridge – 9,563 cases (261 new), 1,305 active, 68 deaths
  • West Lethbridge – 3,606 cases (89 new), 501 active, nine deaths
  • North Lethbridge – 3,086 cases (73 new), 414 active, 23 deaths (decreased by one)
  • South Lethbridge – 2,871 cases (99 new), 392 active, 36 deaths (one new)
• Medicine Hat – 5,784 cases (156 new), 590 active, 79 deaths
• Brooks – 2,408 cases (49 new), 213 active, 24 deaths
• Lethbridge County – 2,267 cases (34 new), 132 active, 20 deaths
• Cardston County – 2,175 cases (59 new), 192 active, 40 deaths
• M.D. of Taber – 1,449 cases (19 new), 75 active, 18 deaths
• Cypress County – 992 cases (nine new), 59 active, six deaths
• County of Warner – 904 cases (18 new), 55 active, five deaths
• M.D. of Pincher Creek – 869 cases (36 new), 119 active, 11 deaths
• Fort Macleod – 663 cases (14 new), 44 active, seven deaths
• County of Newell – 577 cases (six new), 32 active, eight deaths
• County of Forty Mile – 379 cases, 17 active, five deaths
• Crowsnest Pass – 252 cases (seven new), 47 active, two deaths
• Waterton – Eight cases, zero active, zero deaths