COVID-19 cases continue to accumulate in Edmonton, with 11 of the city’s 15 spaces now on the provincial watch list.
Four sections of the city – Bonnie Doon, Duggan, Twin Brooks and Woodcroft West – are on the list because they have fewer than 50 instances consisting of 100,000 inhabitants. The city in total is under surveillance with 753 instances, or 73,7 instances consisting of 100,000 inhabitants.
Alberta reported 153 new ones on Wednesday, bringing the number of assets across the province to 1,582.
The Edmonton area, which includes the city of Edmonton and its surroundings, continues to have the number of active cases with 832 reported on Wednesday.
Hospitals in the province are lately treating 64 patients with COVID-19, thirteen of whom are in intensive care. Alberta Health spokesman Tom McMillan announced his death Wednesday, a man in his 60s in the Edmonton area. A total of 267 other people in Alberta have died as a result of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
McMillan said earlier this week that there is no single source leading to a build-up of infections in the capital.
“We continue to see a number of cases due to social gatherings, epidemics, returning travelers and close contacts of the cases shown,” McMillan said in an email Tuesday.
McMillan showed Wednesday that the province has contacted Health Canada to verify that it will potentially use Abbott ID Now’s immediate verification kits after they are approved by the federal agency.
Most importantly, we are working with our federal and provincial opposing numbers to evaluate the functionality characteristics of the Abbott ID Now test, “said McMillan. “This is an essential painting to perceive the most suitable scenarios in which those tests will be used in Alberta. “
The Edmonton Public Schools Council (EPSB) announced an outbreak at Dr. Donald Massey School on Wednesday after two positive cases were known at the school: no student or more at school wants to isolate themselves, council officials said.
The EPSB also announced a positive case at the Harry Ainlay school that led 54 academics and 3 members to isolate themselves. Soraya Hafez School and Princeton School have also seen positive cases in their communities.
Center High Campus had an eighth known case at the school, which forced 34 more students and two members to isolate themselves.
Catholic schools in Edmonton reported a case in St. Teresa of Calcutta, the St. Louis school. Rose, Father Leo Green School, Louis St. Louis School. Laurent, St. John Bosco and St. Mary Goretti School. Two more cases have been known at Christ the King School.
The provincial government has lately 25 Edmonton schools indexed as an outbreak or under surveillance, a designation given to a school with five or more cases.
Meanwhile, an outbreak at Millwoods Long Term Care Center appears to be confined to the third floor, according to a Wednesday by Shawn Terlson, president and CEO of Good Shepherd, on the operator’s website. Terlson stated that there were no cases shown on the operator’s website. other floors and that citizens and staff would be re-examined.
A total of 23 citizens and 11 members tested positive. Two citizens died and one member recovered.
Terlson stated that a contractor hired through an Eden House resident tested positive for COVID-19 but never on site while symptomatic. Residents and staff have been evaluated and so far all tests have been negative.
Across the country, there have been 156,961 cases shown of COVID-19 and 13,991 are still active, health Canada’s most recent figures show. There were 9,291 disease-like deaths in the country. Globally, there were 33,502,430 cases shown and 1,004,421 similar deaths. according to the World Health Organization.
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