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St. Albert tops 100 active COVID-19 cases

Overall the city saw 10 new cases diagnosed overnight and zero new recoveries.
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On April 1, St. Albert surpassed 100 positive cases of COVID-19. There are now 104 active cases.

St. Albert continues to see a steady rise in COVID-19 cases, with another 10 active cases added overnight, bringing the total to 104.

The city has been climbing steadily into a third wave since numbers lowered to 18 active cases on March 6. Since then, the city has added new active cases every day.

Overall, the city saw 10 new cases diagnosed overnight and zero new recoveries.

Sturgeon County is also seeing case numbers climbing, with active cases jumping from 24 to 27 overnight.

Morinville has doubled their active cases overnight, climbing from three to six cases. The town had no active COVID-19 cases between March 26 and 29, but numbers have climbed since.  

On Thursday, the province saw another 875 new cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in the province with another 322 variants identified. There are currently 292 people in hospital with 59 of them in intensive care. Another four deaths have been reported to Alberta Health in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 1,994.

The province ran 13,601 tests with a positivity rate of 6.4 per cent.

Variant cases of COVID-19 make up 33 per cent of all active cases in the province.

On Thursday, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw pleaded with Albertans to follow the public health rules this holiday weekend and urged Albertans not to gather indoors with people outside of their households.

“Instead of delivering a message of openness and optimism, I'm here instead with a plea. Please, please follow Alberta's health restrictions and guidelines this weekend and in the weeks to come,” Kenney said.

The premier said no new restrictions will be put in place because Albertans aren’t following the ones that have already been imposed, with indoor socialization with those who aren’t part of the same household a big driver in surging COVID-19 numbers. 

The premier said the second wave began right after Thanksgiving when Albertans gathered indoors to celebrate the holiday.

"Our contact tracing data confirms clearly that these kinds of activities — at home, indoor socializing — are by far the most responsible for spreading COVID-19."


Jennifer Henderson

About the Author: Jennifer Henderson

Jennifer Henderson is the editor of the St. Albert Gazette and has been with Great West Media since 2015
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