WESTLOCK — Active COVID-19 cases continue to remain below 10 in the Westlock area.
One new cases has been recorded since yesterday’s update, and three more people have recovered. There are six active cases in the area of 171 recorded since the start of the pandemic. One person has died, a 90-year-old man at the Westlock Continuing Care Centre, and 164 others have recovered.
The area includes the Town of Westlock, Westlock County and the Village of Clyde.
In Alberta, 259 new cases were reported today out of about 6,800 tests for a positivity rate of 3.5 per cent. There are 6,599 active cases in the province.
Fifty-seven cases of the COVID-19 variants first identified in the UK and South Africa have been reported as of Monday — 50 for the UK variant, and seven for the South African variant. Most were travelers, and six cases have been identified as close contacts.
Variant numbers are updated weekly.
There are 539 people in hospital, including 94 in ICU. Eleven people have died since yesterday which brings the death toll in the province to 1,671.
Thirteen per cent, or 307 Albertan schools are on alert or outbreak with a total of 746 cases. None of the schools in the Westlock area have two or more cases.
The province has administered 109,341 doses of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines as of yesterday. Of those, 18,970 people have received both doses.
Measures will be relaxed starting Monday. 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.
