Daily COVID update

Medicine Hat is now at 86 active cases. There have been 671 total cases to date, with 578 recoveries and 17 deaths.

Other active numbers: Cypress County – 28 Forty Mile – Five Lethbridge – 480

MD of Taber – 41 Brooks – Five

Calgary – 5,776 Edmonton – 2,590

Red Deer – 279

Province:

1,412 new on 15,738 tests 9.1% positivity rate

15,569 active cases

420 active hospitalizations 92 in ICU

Eight new deaths

2,029 total deaths

Variant strains:

B117 (UK) – 12,765 B1351 (S. Africa) – 29 P.1 (Brazil) – 138

Active – 8,197 Recovered – 4,688

Total – 12,932 (Up 778) 47 deaths from variants

Provincial R-value: 1.12

Vaccines administered: 39,674 reported Wednesday 994,605 to date

191,057 fully vaccinated