Alberta’s total cases from the start of the pandemic is 186,679
There have been 27,921 variant cases ID’d in the province, 1,058 new today. There are 1,383 in the South Zone.
13,193 active cases (63.2 per cent of total) have been identified as variants of concern.
There are 1,839 total new cases in the province today.
There are now 643 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 145 of which are in ICU, and 2,073 deaths.
The province completed 18,976 tests in the past 24 hours.
The positivity rate is about 9.8 per cent.
Alberta has administered 1,497,256 of vaccine at the latest update.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s next update will be later this week.
South zone COVID hospitalization breakdown
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On Tuesday Alberta Health Services confirmed there were 26 cases of people with COVID-19 in three hospitals across the south zone, and five being treated in ICUs.
Of the 26 hospitalized cases there were 17 in Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge and two of them were in ICU.
Medicine Hat Regional Hospital had eight patients with COVID and three of them were in ICU.
There was also one COVID-19 positive patient in the Cardston Health Centre.
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Alberta public urged to seek needed care as more than 2,000 cancers went undiagnosed during pandemic
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Alberta Health Services is urging Albertans not to ignore symptoms of illness after data shows serious issues have been allowed to develop during the pandemic.
Dr. Doug Stewart, medical oncologist with AHS, says cancer rates typically go up slightly each year, but since the pandemic started undiagnosed numbers are way up.
“… our data shows us that well over 2,000 cancers have gone undiagnosed since the COVID pandemic started last March, compared to data from the same period in 2019.”
Stewart says it’s “very alarming” that in some cases Albertans did not seek medical attention for months after they first noticed symptoms that were the early warning signs.