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By Connor Gunn

COVID hospitalizations drop across Alberta Thursday

Mar 10, 2022 | 4:38 PM

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

552 cases were confirmed across the province, bringing the total to 530,288. Of those, 6,689 cases are active while 519,607 people have recovered.

Provincially, 1,067 patients are currently hospitalized including 76 who have been admitted to intensive care. This marks a decrease of 20 for hospitalizations and two for ICU compared to our most recent report on Wednesday.

With 3,041 tests conducted in that time, the positivity rate was 18.1 per cent.

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 number 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, 58 people tested positive with 26 in Lethbridge.

Active infections in the province fell by 189.

Since yesterday’s update, six Albertans died from COVID with zero new in the South Zone. To date, 3,992 people in the province have died as a result of the virus.

AHS has released the following vaccine outcomes:

• Since Jan 1, 2021, 0.6% of people with one dose (21,425/3,561,000) were diagnosed with COVID-19 14 days after the first immunization date
• Since Jan 1, 2021, 4.3% of people with two doses (144,736/3,356,666) were diagnosed with COVID-19 14 days after the second immunization date
• Since Jan 1, 2021, 2.3% of people with three doses (35,981/1,574,982) were diagnosed with COVID-19 14 days after the third immunization date
• 52.7% of cases (224,892/427,034) since Jan 1, 2021, were unvaccinated or diagnosed within two weeks from the first dose immunization date
• 63.5% of hospitalized cases (12,078/19,012) since Jan 1, 2021, were unvaccinated or diagnosed within two weeks from the first dose immunization date
• 62.7% of COVID-19 deaths (1,542/2,461) since Jan 1, 2021, were unvaccinated or diagnosed within two weeks from the first dose immunization date
  COVID-19 outcomes by vaccination status. (Alberta Health Services)

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.

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

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

Below is a breakdown of cases per health zone in Alberta:

• Calgary Zone – 213,469 cases, 2,144 active
  • 374 in hospital, 25 in ICU
  • 1,092 deaths (one new)
• Edmonton Zone – 169,579 cases, 1,992 active
  • 352 in hospital, 33 in ICU
  • 1,563 deaths (three new)
• North Zone – 59,178 cases, 854 active
  • 130 in hospital, six in ICU
  • 479 deaths (one new)
• Central Zone – 53,579 cases, 989 active
  • 123 in hospital, six in ICU
  • 507 deaths (one new)
• South Zone – 34,213 cases, 700 active
  • 88 in hospital, six in ICU
  • 351 deaths

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

• Lethbridge – 11,689 cases (26 new), 309 active, 88 deaths
  • West Lethbridge – 4,521 cases (eight new), 126 active, 12 deaths
  • North Lethbridge – 3,618 cases (nine new), 86 active, 28 deaths
  • South Lethbridge – 3,557 cases (nine new), 99 active, 48 deaths
• Medicine Hat – 7,023 cases (14 new), 126 active, 88 deaths
• Brooks – 2,630 cases, 10 active, 32 deaths
• Lethbridge County – 2,639 cases, 45 active, 22 deaths
• Cardston County – 2,615 cases (eight new), 73 active, 44 deaths
• M.D. of Taber – 1,644 cases, 31 active, 19 deaths
• Cypress County – 1,155 cases (one new), 19 active, six deaths
• M.D. of Pincher Creek – 1,145 cases (three new), 29 active, 13 deaths
• County of Warner – 1,082 cases, 15 active, eight deaths
• Fort Macleod – 814 cases (four new), 23 active, eight deaths
• County of Newell – 650 cases (one new), seven active, nine deaths
• County of Forty Mile – 421 cases, three active, five deaths
• Crowsnest Pass – 322 cases, six active, three deaths
• Waterton – eight cases, zero active, zero deaths