WESTLOCK — The Westlock area has recorded one new COVID-19 cases since yesterday’s update, and one person has recovered.
There are 11 active cases of 170 recorded since the start of the pandemic. One person has died, a 90-year-old man at the Westlock Continuing Care Centre, and 158 others have recovered.
The area includes the Town of Westlock, Westlock County and the Village of Clyde.
The outbreak at the Continuing Care Centre has been resolved.
In Alberta, 543 new cases were reported today out of about 11,600 tests for a positivity rate of 4.5 per cent. There are 7,805 active cases in the province.
Thirty-seven cases of two COVID-19 variants have been reported to date: 31 of the UK variant and six of the South African variant. Three of them are not travel related, and they are all people in the same household.
There are 594 people in hospital, including 110 in ICU. Fourteen people have died since yesterday, which brings the death toll in the province to 1,620.
Twelve per cent, or 291 Albertan schools are on alert or outbreak with a total of 607 cases. None of the schools in the Westlock area have two or more cases.
The province has administered 104,327 doses of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines as of yesterday. Of those, 14,325 people have received both doses.
Measures will be relaxed starting Monday, Feb. 8 announced premier Jason Kenney. Restaurants, bars, pubs and gyms will be allowed to reopen in a limited capacity. The new plan for easing restrictions is based on number of hospitalizations and staggers activities and businesses that can reopen.
Andreea Resmerita, TownandCountryToday.com
Watch Alberta's chief medical officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw Jan. 29 COVID-19 update:
