COVID-19 Wednesday, as well as 94 new confirmed cases of the illness.However, there were also 137 newly-recorded recoveries — more than new cases — meaning that the net active case number for the province did go down, and sits currently at 1,146.
To compare to last week, on July 28, there were more than 1,400 active cases.The two deaths reported Wednesday were a woman in her 70s in the Central zone and a man in his 70s in the North zone.
Neither of them were in continuing care centres.The highest active case numbers continue to be in the Calgary, Edmonton and Central zones.