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Alberta reaches 500 deaths and 50,000 cases since onset of COVID-19

There have now been 500 COVID-19 related deaths in Alberta and more than 50,000 total cases.

Both thresholds were announced during Wednesday’s update with Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw.

She says the provincial positivity rate is also sitting at about 8.1 percent with 1,265 new cases out of 15,600 tests.

Alberta also set another record for the number of active cases with 13,719.

There are 355 people in hospital being treated for COVID-19 and 71 of them are in the ICU.

Hinshaw says Alberta Health Services will be increasing COVID capacity with more than 2,000 acute care beds and 400 ICU beds being made available in the coming weeks.

In the Lakeland, the MD of Bonnyville has 29 active cases, the City of Cold Lake is said to have 62 active cases, the County of St. Paul has 48 active cases and Lac La Biche has 29 active cases.

Written by Tina Karst, MyLethbridgeNow.com

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