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Two more Fort McMurray residents have died from COVID-19, according to Alberta Health data released Tuesday.
The individuals are two of four deaths across the province announced Tuesday, bringing Alberta’s COVID-19 death toll to 2,274. No COVID-19 deaths have been reported in the region’s rural areas, but Indigenous communities in the Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo area have reported some elders have died while living in other communities. There are 117 active cases in the Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo area.
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By Jaryn Vecchio
Northern Lights Regional Health Centre // Steph Seidel - Harvard Broadcasting
The active total of COVID-19 cases in Fort McMurray is seeing another jump up.
The province announced on Wednesday 1,351 new cases across the province over the past 24 hours.
There are currently 11,464 active cases across Alberta, while there have been a total of 155,476 positive tests. There are also 333 Albertans in the hospital for the virus, 79 of which are in ICUs.
Locally, Fort McMurray added 43 new cases and 20 recoveries which lowers the active total to 335.
The rural areas didn’t see any new changes, keeping the total of active cases at three.