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St. Albert COVID-19 cases continue to fall

“If we see more variants, there is a greater risk that our cases may start to rise,” said Hinshaw Tuesday.
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Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health Deena Hinshaw. CHRIS SCHWARZ/Government of Alberta

The number of COVID-19 cases in St. Albert continued to fall Tuesday.

The province provided new COVID-19 data that showed St. Albert’s active case number currently sits at 65, down from the 74 reported yesterday. This is the result of 11 people recovering from the disease while two more cases were added to the total. No new deaths have been reported in the area.  

In Sturgeon County, the fall in cases continued as well. There are 27 active cases in the county, with one new case and two more people recovering.

Meanwhile, Morinville saw no new cases and four more recoveries Tuesday. The town currently has 24 active cases.

Provincewide, 195 new cases were identified in the past 24 hours. A total of 427 Albertans are in hospital with the disease, 78 of whom are in the ICU.  

Since yesterday, 7,003 tests were administered in the province, with the positivity rate being clocked in at 3.2 per cent.  

Alberta also announced that 12 new COVID-related deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours. This brings the province’s total death toll to 1,722.  

There are currently active alerts for 315 schools across the province. These schools have had a combined total of 866 cases since Jan 11. The province says they have identified 115 cases of in-school transmission since in-person schooling was re-introduced.  

The province sits at 5,831 active cases.  

Variants

Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw announced that one new COVID-19 variant case has been reported to the province in the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of variant cases in the province to 104. Of these cases, 97 of them are related to the U.K. variant while the other seven are related to the South African variant.  

Hinshaw said the province currently does not have a benchmark on the number of variant cases that would stall Alberta’s reopening strategy.  

“If we see more variants, there is a greater risk that our cases may start to rise,” said Hinshaw. “There is no specific variant benchmark because what is most important is that we keep our COVID cases trending down.”  

Hinshaw went on to say the province retroactively identified Alberta’s first variant case in a sample taken on Dec. 15. More information on variant cases will be made public later this week.  

“We will be posting a breakdown by zone of all the variant cases,” said Hinshaw. “We will be doing daily updates of variant cases starting this week because we know there is a keen interest in understanding how that changes over time.” 

For more information, visit https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm.

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