EDMONTON -- Alberta has another 1,592 newly reported COVID-19 cases Saturday. The province completed approximately 17,700 tests, leading to a positivity rate of nine per cent, the province’s top doctor said in a limited COVID-19 update on Twitter. Alberta now has 19,446 active cases. Variant cases now make up 60.9 per cent of active cases in Alberta, with 1,132 new variant of concern cases identified. There are now 584 people in hospital, including 129 in ICU. Hospitalizations started to steadily increase Friday. There were 518 on Thursday. Friday saw them increase by 31 to 549. Five more Albertans have died from COVID-19, including three people in their 50s and 60s in the Calgary zone.