From: ChatNewsToday.ca
By: Chris Brown
In the first update of Medicine Hat COVID-19 cases since Wednesday, the city has jumped from 15 active cases to 28 and 104 total cases to 118. Recovered cases have gone from 87 to 88.
Technical issues with the province’s reporting site led to only basic provincial updates over the past few days.
There remain two COVID-19 deaths in the city.
Province-wide there are 644 new cases reported on Monday. This weekend the province went back to its previous practice of Saturday and Sunday updates. There were 919 cases reported Saturday and 727 on Sunday.
Alberta now has 7,965 active cases and 25,826 recovered.
There are now 192 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 39 of which are in ICU, and 369 deaths.
As the number of Albertans in hospital nears 200, Dr. Deena Hinshaw said again that “it is vital we protect the health system. These numbers are concerning and we are considering what further steps may be needed.”
“We cannot simply dictate where and when this virus will spread. We all need to protect each other.”
Overall testing numbers remain unavailable due to outstanding technical issues. She said about 13,00 tests were conducted yesterday with a positivity rate of about five per cent.
More to come…
Comments