Another 33 COVID-19 cases were diagnosed in St. Albert in the past 24 hours, bringing the amount of active cases in the city Friday to 337.
Twenty-six more people are listed as recovered.
New provincial data showed active cases in the city increasing marginally after several days of decreases, meaning more people were diagnosed Friday than recovered.
So far, 1109 St. Albertans have caught COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic and 768 have recovered.
There have been four deaths in the city.
In Sturgeon County, there are currently 120 active cases and 283 people having recovered since the pandemic began. In Morinville, there are 64 active cases with 127 people having recovered so far.
On Friday, Alberta reported 1,738 new cases of COVID-19, with 20,161 active cases in total across the province.
There are currently 684 people in the hospital and 123 of those are in the intensive care unit (ICU)
In the past 24 hours, another 18 Albertans died from the disease.
Some 21,000 tests were ran in the past 24 hours with a provincial positivity rate of 8.3 per cent.
There are currently 458 schools with active alerts or outbreaks, which accounts for 19 per cent of school in the province.
In total there are 1,947 active cases in provincial schools.
To help curb the spread of the virus, the province has launched new ads urging Albertans not to gather over the holidays.
"Our goal is to get people's attention, to help them see common situations from a different perspective, and as a result to influence their behaviour," Hinshaw said.
"The campaign uses humour because the situation is serious and we need to use every tool at our disposal to reach all Albertans."
The ads target Albertans between the ages of 20 and 39.
