On Feb. 4, the Government of Alberta's geospatial map reported the the Town of Athabasca, the Village of Boyle, and the rest of Athabasca County fell to 19 active cases, its lowest point since November — the active case rate per 100,000 residents sits at 145.3, with a population of 13,073. That's down from 175.9 last Monday and from 242.5 Jan. 11.
The region is down from 24 active cases last Sunday, and recoveries at 178, for a total of 197 cases since March.There have been no deaths in the Athabasca area.
Active cases in the Boyle area are also falling slowly and are down to eight, where they been hovering around that mark, give or take a couple cases, for several weeks. There have been 66 cases in all.
The Boyle area is bordered to the southeast by Smoky Lake County, where active case numbers skyrocketed a few months ago, but is now seeing numbers fall drastically to 24 active cases, down from 60 since Jan. 25. Thorhild County, to the south, reached and maintained zero cases for a couple weeks, but now reports three active cases, making for 38 total cases. The County of Barrhead had also reached zero active cases two weeks ago, but now lists six. There have also been two deaths in that area.
Westlock County reports seven active cases and 165 recoveries, with a single death reported.
The M.D. of Lesser Slave River, to the west, has 48 active cases, a jump of 19 since Sunday, and 162 recoveries.
To the north, in the M.D. of Opportunity, active cases are up to 78. There have been 281 recoveries there, and one reported death. The active case rate is 1,182.3 per 100,000 residents and a population of 6,597. East of Athabasca County in Lac La Biche County, there are 40 active cases, all within the Hamlet of Lac La Biche, along with 280 recoveries altogether. There have also been eight deaths.
On Jan. 28, Premier Jason Kenney announced a schedule to relax the remaining restrictions starting Monday, Feb. 8, and will continue to do so on a sliding scale, based on the number of those hospitalized because of the virus. At 450 hospitalizations, the government hopes to ease some restrictions on retail shops and community halls, hotels, banquet halls and conference centres. There are currently 517 people in the hospital, and 93 of those are in intensive care.
On Thursday, the province added 582 new cases — 421 in the last 24 hours. There were also 13 more deaths — now at 1,684 in all. There are now 6,588 active cases in Alberta, and falling. There have been 117,400 recoveries since March.
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