COVID-19 update Friday afternoon.Dr. Deena Hinshaw is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m. Her news conference will be streamed in this post.
244 new cases of COVID-19, 1 additional death in Alberta on Thursday On Thursday, there were 2,738 active cases of the novel coronavirus in Alberta.
Of those, more than half — 1,497 cases — were in the Edmonton zone.There were 101 people in hospital, with 16 of those people in ICU.There have been 21,443 Albertans who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and 18,417 people have recovered.Alberta recorded another death on Thursday.
A man in his 80s from the Edmonton zone died. He was connected to the outbreak at Millwoods Shepherd’s Care Centre in Edmonton, Alberta Health said.