Alberta doctors reflect on COVID-19 one year later and what’s next An additional 36 U.K. variant cases were confirmed Saturday, bringing the total variant cases to 599.
Of that total, 589 are the U.K. variant and 10 are the South African variant.There are 247 people in hospital, with 42 of them in intensive care.The 341 new cases came from 8,142 tests, which equals a provincial positivity rate of 4.11 per cent, according to Alberta Health spokesperson Tom McMillan.As of March 5, the province said 282,674 vaccine doses had been administered and 90,824 Albertans had been fully immunized.Dr.