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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-covid-coronavirus-june-17-1.6069055
...The latest COVID-19 numbers:
Alberta reported 153 new COVID-19 cases as the province teeters on the edge of its vaccination threshold to trigger the final stage of its reopening plan.
Under that plan, the province will go to Stage 3 and lift most public health restrictions two weeks after 70 per cent of Albertans 12 and older have their first dose.
The province needs 9,962 more people to get their first shot to hit that mark, according to updated numbers posted to Alberta Health's website Wednesday.
The province is reporting its lowest active case count of COVID-19 since October — there are about 2,639 active infections in the province, down from more than 20,000 a month earlier, when Alberta imposed tougher public health restrictions.
There were 255 people in hospital in Alberta — a decrease of 16 from the previous day. Of those in hospital, 67 were in intensive care units.
Alberta's positivity rate is 2.19 per cent.
Provincial labs completed 6,708 tests over the past 24 hours.
There have now been 2,278 COVID deaths, while 225,941 Albertans are considered to have recovered from COVID-19.
The latest R-value was 0.76, meaning the virus is spreading to less than one person for each confirmed case. That number has increased over the previous two weeks.
Three units at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary are dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks of the rapidly spreading delta variant, or B.1.617.2.
Two deaths at the Foothills Medical Centre have been linked to the delta variant, Alberta Health Services says.
AHS said that of those two deaths, one person had been fully immunized, while the other had not received either a first or second dose of the vaccine.
Eleven people in the Foothills hospital outbreaks who are confirmed to have contracted the delta variant were fully vaccinated before they contracted the illness, officials said.
A total of 22 patients and seven health-care workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in the affected units, according to Alberta Health Services...
...The latest COVID-19 numbers:
Alberta reported 153 new COVID-19 cases as the province teeters on the edge of its vaccination threshold to trigger the final stage of its reopening plan.
Under that plan, the province will go to Stage 3 and lift most public health restrictions two weeks after 70 per cent of Albertans 12 and older have their first dose.
The province needs 9,962 more people to get their first shot to hit that mark, according to updated numbers posted to Alberta Health's website Wednesday.
The province is reporting its lowest active case count of COVID-19 since October — there are about 2,639 active infections in the province, down from more than 20,000 a month earlier, when Alberta imposed tougher public health restrictions.
There were 255 people in hospital in Alberta — a decrease of 16 from the previous day. Of those in hospital, 67 were in intensive care units.
Alberta's positivity rate is 2.19 per cent.
Provincial labs completed 6,708 tests over the past 24 hours.
There have now been 2,278 COVID deaths, while 225,941 Albertans are considered to have recovered from COVID-19.
The latest R-value was 0.76, meaning the virus is spreading to less than one person for each confirmed case. That number has increased over the previous two weeks.
Three units at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary are dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks of the rapidly spreading delta variant, or B.1.617.2.
Two deaths at the Foothills Medical Centre have been linked to the delta variant, Alberta Health Services says.
AHS said that of those two deaths, one person had been fully immunized, while the other had not received either a first or second dose of the vaccine.
Eleven people in the Foothills hospital outbreaks who are confirmed to have contracted the delta variant were fully vaccinated before they contracted the illness, officials said.
A total of 22 patients and seven health-care workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in the affected units, according to Alberta Health Services...