Daily COVID update

Medicine Hat is now at 96 active cases. There have been 695 total cases to date, with 582 recoveries and 17 deaths.

Other active numbers: Cypress County – 28 Forty Mile – Six Lethbridge – 482

MD of Taber – 38 Brooks – Six

Calgary – 5,907 Edmonton – 2,759

Red Deer – 318

Province:

1,646 new on 17,198 tests 9.5% positivity rate

16,223 active cases

416 active hospitalizations 86 in ICU

Five new deaths

2,034 total deaths

Variant strains:

B117 (UK) – 13,770 B1351 (S. Africa) – 29

P.1 (Brazil) – 153

Active – 8,628

Recovered – 5,222

Total – 13,952 (Up 1,020) 48 deaths from variants

Provincial R-value: 1.12

Vaccines administered: 30,972 reported Thursday 1,032,911 to date

202,057 fully vaccinated