531 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the past 24 hours in Alberta. About 8,000 (8,030) tests were conducted for a test positivity rate of approximately 6.6 percent.
There are 964 individuals hospitalized in Alberta due to COVID-19. The number of COVID patients in intensive care units is 218.
12 new deaths have occurred. The number of lives lost due to the virus in Alberta is 2,988.
The number of active cases of COVID-19 is 12,302 – down by 900 from October 17th.
416 new variant cases have been identified.
There are 2,891 active cases of COVID-19 in the Calgary Zone, 2,717 in the Edmonton Zone, and 2,209 in the Central Zone.
Sundre is down to 14 active cases of the virus. Crossfield remains at 22, Olds is down to 25, the Didsbury/Carstairs/South Mountain View County area is down to 45, Innisfail is down to 49, Sylvan Lake is down to 77, the Three Hills/Highway 21 area is down to 89, and Rocky Mountain House is down to 157.
Red Deer County is down to 134 active cases of COVID-19, while Mountain View County is down to 59.
More than 302,000 (302,574) Albertans have recovered from the virus.
As of October 18th, over 6.3 million (6,368,880) doses of vaccine have been administered in Alberta. According to the data on the alberta.ca website, 68.9 percent of people of all ages in Olds have been immunized with at least one dose, while 61.4 percent are fully vaccinated.
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