Chief medical officer of health COVID-19 update – April 15, 2021
Alberta’s chief medical officer of health and officials provide an update on COVID-19 and the ongoing work to protect public health.
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Thank you, Tom, and good afternoon everyone.
Over the last 24 hours, we have identified 1,646 new cases of COVID-19, and completed about 17,200 tests.
Our positivity rate currently stands at 9.5%.
We have identified 1,020 additional cases of variants of concern in the last 24 hours. Variants currently represent about 54% of our active cases.