COVID-19 cases in Alberta continue to trend down, outside the province’s major cities, the rate of spread in the community is on the rise.In the week of Jan.
18 to 24, the R value (or rate of transmission) was 0.77, compared to 0.81 and 0.83 in Edmonton and Calgary respectively. Coronavirus: Alberta’s R value dips below 1, but ‘a plateau is not enough’ One week later, the R value for rural Alberta had jumped to 0.9 and as of the week of Feb.