WESTLOCK — Active COVID-19 cases continue to remain below 10 in the Westlock area.
Three more people have tested positive for COVID-19 since Friday’s update, and two others have recovered. There are seven active cases in the area of 176 recorded since the start of the pandemic. Two people have died, including a 90-year-old resident at the Westlock Continuing Care Centre, and 167 others have recovered.
The area includes the Town of Westlock, Westlock County and the Village of Clyde.
In Alberta, 269 new cases were reported today out of about 6,200 tests for a positivity rate of 4.3 per cent. There are 6,196 active cases in the province.
Twenty-five new cases of two COVID-19 variants have been identified since Friday. There are now 96 cases of the variant first identified in the UK — 46 of them have no known travel link.
There are 432 people in hospital, including 76 in ICU. Five people have died since yesterday which brings the death toll in the province to 1,710.
Thirteen per cent, or 313 schools are on alert or outbreak with 844 cases recorded since Jan. 11. None of the Westlock area schools have two or more active cases.
The province has administered 120,357 doses of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines as of yesterday. Of those, 28,991 people have received both doses.
Alberta’s chief medical officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw will give her next update Tuesday, Feb. 9.
Andreea Resmerita, TownandCountryToday.com
Watch Dr. Hinshaw's Feb. 8 COVID-19 update:
