1,166 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed during the past 24 hours in Alberta. About 10,600 (10,687) tests were conducted for a test positivity rate of approximately 10.9 percent.
There are 647 individuals hospitalized in Alberta due to COVID-19. The number of patients in intensive care units is 147.
18 new deaths have occurred. The number of lives lost due to the virus in Alberta is 2,425.
The number of active cases of COVID-19 has increased to 15,618 – up by 132 from September 7th.
4,020 new variant cases have been identified.
There are 4,645 active cases of COVID-19 in the Edmonton Zone, 4,353 in the Calgary Zone, and 2,120 in the Central Zone.
Crossfield is reporting 21 active cases of the virus. The Three Hills/Highway 21 area is at 42, Sundre is up to 48, Sylvan Lake is up to 77, the Didsbury/Carstairs/South Mountain View County area is up to 76, Innisfail is down to 86, Olds is up to 122, and Rocky Mountain House is up to 153.
Red Deer County is up to 176 active cases of COVID-19, while Mountain View County is at 124.
More than 245,000 (245,011) Albertans have recovered from the virus.
As of September 7th, over 5.6 million (5,618,821) doses of vaccine have been administered in Alberta. In Innisfail, 63.4 percent of people of all ages have been immunized with at least one dose, while 57.4 percent are fully vaccinated.
Meanwhile, Alberta Health Services says 5, 268 people got COVID-19 vaccines over the weekend.
The total does not including those who may have done so at pharmacies and it is a 13 per cent bump compared with the previous weekend.
On Friday, Premier Jason Kenney announced 100 dollars will now be given to anyone who gets their first or second COVID vaccine from now until mid-October.
Alberta averaged more than 12-hundred new COVID cases a day over the Labour Day long weekend.
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The Alberta Hospitality Association says it is seeking legal advice about the province’s alcohol curfew.
The 10 p-m cutoff for alcohol service started Saturday in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19, especially among young adults.
The hospitality group says it wants to see what data the government has to support the curfew.
(Contains content from The Canadian Press)
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