A total number of COVID-19 cases and a similar death were reported in Alberta on Friday.
A woman in her 60s in the south is the most recent death announced in the province. His death is similar to that of any procedural care center, Alberta Health spokesman Tom McMillan said.
The death brings the total number of deaths in the province to 221 since the start of the pandemic.
On Friday, the Good Samaritan Society reported no new deaths at the Southgate Care Center and Alberta Health Services (AHS) announced that Misericordia would begin reopening new patients.
Misericordia declared a complete outbreak at the facility on June 8, meaning no new patients would enter the facility and daytime procedures were postponed or moved to other hospitals. They came here at a time when 20 patients and 15 hospital employees tested positive for COVID-19. There were three similar deaths at the time.
AHS announced that Misericordia will reopen the emergency branch and labor and labor and delivery on Friday. Outpatient and surgical appointments will begin with a slow reopening. A press release issued Friday via AHS said there had been no new cases at the facility since July 17 and that the outbreak has now been officially declared finished.
There were a total of 58 cases related to the outbreak, adding 31 patients, two and 25 employees. A total of 11 patients died.
“At the beginning of the Mercy epidemic, we took vital steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and ensure the quality of patients, staff, doctors and volunteers,” said Dr. David Zygun, medical director of AHS Edmonton Zone in Liberation. “With great caution and nearly a month without new cases similar to the initial outbreak, we are confident that the site is in a position to start receiving patients entering a care environment.
The Alberta Department of Health says there are 11 outbreaks in the Edmonton area lately. There are 3 in long-term care centers, plus Extendicare Eaux Claires and Miller Crossing Care Center.
The 84 new instances announced on Friday raise the total number of active instances in Alberta to 1,036. Edmonton still has the highest number of such cases, with 497. It’s followed by Calgary with 305 cases, and northern Alberta is 103.
Central and southern Alberta have 81 and forty-five instances, respectively. There are five instances with an unknown location.
There have been 12,053 cases of COVID-19 in Alberta since the start of the pandemic, of which 10,796 have recovered.
A total of 48 other people are in Alberta hospitals with COVID-19, thirteen of which are in intensive care.
Provincial laboratories carried out 801,360 in 652,819 people.
There were 121,234 cases of COVID-19 and 9,015 deaths nationwide, according to the most recent Health Canada figures. Worldwide, there have been 20,730,456 instances of 751,154 similar deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
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