The city of Edmonton was removed from the province’s COVID-19 watch list on Friday as active instances begin to decline in the city.
While Edmonton’s dominance remained a hot spot in Alberta with more than 45% of active instances in the province in 544, the numbers began to fall from a peak of 676 last Friday, according to provincial knowledge. On Thursday, there were 589 active instances, 625 on Wednesday, 608 on Tuesday and 631 on Monday in the Edmonton domain. The province no longer provides up-to-date knowledge about COVID-19 on weekends.
However, 4 rooms remained on the watch list, Northgate with 101 cases, northeast with 89 cases, Castle Downs with 59 cases and Eastwood with 41 cases.
As of Friday, the city of Edmonton had an active case rate of 47.9 consisting of 100,000 inhabitants, emerging from 51.5 consistent with 100,000 the day before. There were 489 active instances within municipal boundaries.
Edmonton was first added to the watch list on August 18.
The city announced Thursday that it had created a new expanded “escalation model” with plans to handle a imaginable wave of time or a primary epidemic. He also said he was responding to more cases at the local point by expanding police patrols where cases are high, focusing on schooling and messaging, and expanding his meetings with Alberta gymnasiums 3 times a week.
Meanwhile, an outbreak was reported at some other senior facilities in Edmonton, and 3 cases were reported to the Greater Edmonton Foundation Seniors Housing Beverly Place. There are outbreaks in 14 fitness centers and supportive housing services in the city.
The outbreak at Health Link rose to six on Friday.
Good Samaritan Southgate, the site of Alberta’s deadliest outbreak to date with 31 resident fatalities, didn’t report any additional deaths or cases Friday. According to its website, there are 12 active cases among residents and four among staff, for a total of 112 cases including recoveries.
Alberta Health corrected the number of cases in the outbreak at Bright Horizons Daycare on Friday to five cases out of six.
It has also provided updates on other life outbreaks and physical care, adding active and cured cases. These come with Gray Nuns Community Hospital (5), Shepherd’s Care Kensington Village (4), Shepherd’s Care Vanguard (2), Capital Care Dickinsfield (4), Extendicare Eaux Claires (2), Hardist Care Center (4), Catholic Social Services St Rita (3), ICE Southridge Group Home (5), Lifestyle Options Schonsee Retirement Community (9), Salvation Army Grace Manor (3) and Tralee Residential Services (11).
Other local outbreaks come with the Pentecostal Church Bible (100 cases), personal meetings in Edmonton (29) and Spruce Grove (19), Royal Foods Products (20) and Imperial Oil in Strathcona County (7),
On Friday, 158 cases of COVID-19 were reported in Alberta and no deaths were reported.
There are now 1,185 cases active, and Alberta recorded a total of 13,476 cases since the start of the pandemic, adding up to 237 deaths. Forty-four more people are hospitalized, seven of them in resuscitation.
More than one of all cases in the province involve other people under the age of 40. Just over 15% of positive cases refer to other people under the age of 20. The average age of death is 83 years.
Across Canada, another 9,108 people died from COVID-19 with 127,358 cases nationwide. The World Health Organization reported nearly 24.3 million cases on Friday, adding 827,730 deaths.
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