COVID-19 cases since mid-May on Thursday, as health authorities announced they had identified 1,339 new coronavirus cases since a day earlier.With the new cases, the province had 12,868 active COVID-19 cases as of Thursday afternoon.
The Edmonton (3,947) and Calgary (3,593) zones continued to have more active cases than any other zone.The total number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Alberta also rose on Thursday, up five from the day before for a total of 2,388 fatalities.As of Wednesday, Alberta’s positivity rate was at 10.81 per cent.According to numbers posted by Alberta Health on Thursday afternoon, the province saw coronavirus hospitalizations increase by 22 and the number of ICU patients go up by seven over the past 24 hours..