COVID-19 on Wednesday as the province also identified 645 new cases of the disease.The new cases were discovered after 11,343 tests were conducted on Tuesday, putting the province’s positivity rate at 5.58 per cent.The number of people in hospital intensive care units with the coronavirus rose by one on Wednesday and now sits at 184.
However, Alberta Health also noted there were 810 COVID-19 patients in hospital overall on Wednesday, down from 836 the day before.The total number of active COVID-19 cases in the province also dropped Wednesday, down to 8,733 after being at 9,267 on Tuesday.The Calgary zone currently has more active cases than any other region in Alberta (2,223), followed by the Edmonton zone (2,025), the North zone (1,828),.