WESTLOCK — No new cases of COVID-19 have been identified in the Westlock area for a week.
While Westlock ended last week with 176 recorded cases of COVID-19, the provincial government’s geospatial COVID-19 tracker displayed on less case today.
There are four active cases in the area of 175 recorded since the start of the pandemic. Two people have died, including a 90-year-old resident at the Westlock Continuing Care Centre, and 169 others have recovered.
The area includes the Town of Westlock, Westlock County and the Village of Clyde.
In Alberta, 263 new cases were reported today out of about 5,200 tests for a positivity rate of five per cent. There are 4,993 active cases in the province.
Since Friday, 50 new cases of two COVID-19 variants have been identified, which brings the total to 221: of those, 214 are of the variant first identified in the United Kingdom, and seven of the variant first identified in South Africa.
There are 365 people in hospital, including 56 in ICU. Nine people have died since yesterday which brings the death toll in the province to 1,791.
None of the Westlock area schools have two or more active cases.
The province has administered 149,138 doses of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines as of yesterday. Of those, 54,024 people have received both doses.
Andreea Resmerita, TownandCountryToday.com
Watch Alberta chief medical officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw's Feb. 16 COVID-19 update:
