Calgary Centre lands on COVID-19 watch list

Thirty-nine new cases of COVID -19 were reported in Alberta on Sunday, and no additional deaths.

The new cases dropped from Saturday, when 69 new cases were reported — the highest since midmay and nearly twice the daily case count through the month of June, provincial data shows.

There have been 154 fatalities and 7,996 cases of COVID-19 in Alberta — 520 cases are active, and 7,322 are recovered.

Another patient contracted

COVID -19 in the outbreak at Edmonton’s Misericordia Community Hospital by Sunday — a total of 11 patients and eight staff members have tested positive. One patient has died in that outbreak.

Twenty-six additional cases were reported in the Edmonton Zone Sunday, which has seen a total of 984 cases, 242 of them active, and 727 have recovered. The Edmonton Zone has continued a streak with a higher active case count than the Calgary Zone, which has 216 active cases, and 4,971 recoveries.

As of Saturday, provincial data showed just over one-quarter of active cases were in patients between the ages of 20-29, and more than 20 per cent were between the ages of 30-39.

The Calgary Centre region continued to be on the province’s watch list for a second day on Sunday with 51.4 cases per 100,000 people — the only region on that list in Alberta.

Forty-three people are in the hospital due to COVID-19, with eight in intensive care. The average age of hospitalization with the disease is 62 years.

A total of 6,511 new tests have been completed, with 435,254 completed in the province to date.

The average age of death due to COVID -19 in Alberta is 83 years, but a person as young as 27 has perished from the disease.

A total of 8,516 people have died from COVID-19 in Canada, and there have been 103,032 positive cases. The World Health Organization has reported 495,760 deaths and 9,843,073 cases of COVID-19 globally.