COVID-19 in the province on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.The update comes after Alberta Health announced on Monday that there are now 1,516 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19.Of those people, 99 are receiving care in the ICU.
1,516 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 35 new deaths reported since Friday There were 1,496 people in hospital with COVID-19 in Alberta last Friday, according to Alberta Health.
Of those, 105 were in the ICU.An additional 35 COVID-19 deaths were reported over the weekend. To date, 3,566 people died due to COVID-19 in Alberta.On Monday, the province also reported an additional 6,537 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 since Friday.
There were 2,945 cases confirmed on Friday, 1,815 cases confirmed on Saturday and 1,777 confirmed on Sunday.There were 37,468 lab-confirmed active cases according to Monday’s report.However, the actual number of COVID-19 cases is likely much higher as access to PCR is restricted across the province.