There are 1,083 individuals hospitalized in Alberta due to COVID-19. The number of COVID patients in intensive care units is 263.
20 new deaths have occurred. The number of lives lost due to the virus in Alberta is 2,717.
The number of active cases of COVID-19 is 20,255 – down by 51 from September 28th.
946 new variant cases have been identified.
There are 5,175 active cases of COVID-19 in the Edmonton Zone, 4,831 in the Calgary Zone, and 3,942 in the Central Zone.
Crossfield is down to 22 active cases of the virus. Sundre is down to 71, the Didsbury/Carstairs/South Mountain View County area is down to 84, Olds is down to 87, Sylvan Lake is down to 135, Innisfail is down to 139, the Three Hills/Highway 21 area is up to 143, and Rocky Mountain House is down to 354.
Red Deer County is down to 337 active cases of COVID-19, while Mountain View County is up to 149.
More than 275,000 (275,200) Albertans have recovered from the virus.
As of September 29th, over 6.0 million (6,067,562) doses of vaccine have been administered in Alberta. According to the data on the alberta.ca website, 61.1 percent of people of all ages in Didsbury have been immunized with at least one dose, while 53.4 percent are fully vaccinated.
Wing Li of Support Our Students Alberta says she has confirmed 228 active outbreaks at schools with about 10 per cent of students at those facilities home sick with COVID-19 or a variant.
Li says she has been able to track the illnesses because parents have forwarded outbreak notifications from Alberta Health Services.
She says Support Our Students is receiving about 100 messages a day from parents reporting an outbreak or expressing their frustration about the pandemic — and it’s time for the province to resume contract tracing.
(Contains content from The Canadian Press)
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