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COVID-19 UPDATE

City, County of Grande Prairie add two new COVID-19 cases

Aug 12, 2020 | 3:43 PM

Alberta added 121 new cases of COVID-19 for August 11, while the City and County of Grande Prairie each added two new cases from the day prior.

The new cases come as each area posted one more recovery, meaning there are now 12 active cases in the City and six in the County.

In Alberta there are now 1,044 active cases of COVID-19, while recoveries grew to 10,632 (an increase of 80 from the day prior). One more death in Alberta has been attributed to COVID-19, bringing the provincial death toll to 217.

Update case totals among Peace Region municipalities as of the end of day August 11 are as follows:

  • City of Grande Prairie: 45 cases (12 active, 33 recovered)
  • County of Grande Prairie: 27 cases (Six active, 21 recovered)
  • M.D. of Greenview: Eight cases (One active, six recovered, one death)
  • Birch Hills County: Two cases (Both recovered)
  • M.D. of Spirit River: Three cases (All recovered)
  • M.D. of Smoky River: 73 cases (63 recovered, ten deaths)
  • Big Lakes County: 47 cases (One active, 41 recovered, five deaths)
  • M.D. of Lesser Slave River: Five cases (All recovered)
  • M.D. of Peace: Seven cases (All recovered)
  • M.D. of Fairview: Two Cases (Both recovered)
  • Clear Hills County: 25 cases (One active, 24 recovered)
  • Northern Sunrise County: Four cases (All recovered)
  • County of Northern Lights: Seven cases (Two active, five recovered)
  • Mackenzie County: 207 cases (55 active, 148 recovered, four deaths)

Hospitalizations dropped by 12 from Monday to 50 in Alberta, while 13 of those people are in ICU. In the North Zone, there are three people in hospital with one in ICU.

The rise in cases comes as there were just over 8,000 tests processed at the provincial lab over the last 24 hours. There have now been 785,361 tests processed on 641,870 people. There have been 54,052 people from Northern Alberta tested, an increase of 400 from the day prior.