St. Albert has dropped down from 20 active cases to 18 cases overnight, the lowest number of active cases seen since Oct. 9.
Of the 1,990 total cases of COVID-19, 1,929 St. Albertans have recovered. Forty-three people have died.
In Sturgeon County, cases have increased from one to two in the past 24 hours. Morinville is holding steady at nine active cases for the second day in a row.
Friday will mark the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 officially arriving in Alberta.
Across the province, there were 331 new cases of COVID-19 detected after 9,500 tests run, with a positivity rate of 3.6 per cent.
There are active alerts or outbreaks in 230 schools, or 10 per cent of schools across the province. Since Jan. 11 there have been a total of 895 cases of COVID-19 detected in schools.
Another 33 new cases of COVID-19 variants were detected overnight, bringing the provincial total up to 541.
There are currently 245 people in the hospital with 47 of those in intensive care. Nine new deaths were reported to Alberta Health in the past 24 hours.
As of March 3, there have been 266, 231 doses of vaccine distributed to Albertans.
