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COVID-19 UPDATE: November 9

City of Grande Prairie now at 104 active COVID-19 cases

Nov 9, 2020 | 3:52 PM

With the detailed reporting system from Alberta Health receiving some needed repairs, the City of Grande now sits at 104 active cases of COVID-19 as of the end of day Sunday, November 8.

Issues with the system had led to the inability to breakdown the specific location of new cases since November 4. Over those last five days, the City has added 44 new cases.

Elsewhere in the Peace County, the County of Grande Prairie sits at 30 active cases as of the end of day Sunday. The MD of Greenview now has 15 as of that same time.

New case jumps were also seen in the Peace River and Fairview areas.

Updated case numbers among Peace Region municipalities as of the end of day November 8 are as follows:

  • City of Grande Prairie: 353 cases (104 active, 247 recovered, two deaths)
  • County of Grande Prairie: 118 cases (30 active, 88 recovered)
  • M.D. of Greenview: 38 cases (15 active, 22 recovered, one death)
  • Birch Hills County: Five cases (all recovered)
  • M.D. of Spirit River: 28 cases (one active, 27 recovered)
  • Saddle Hills County: Four cases (all recovered)
  • M.D. of Smoky River: 76 cases (66 recovered, ten deaths)
  • Big Lakes County: 53 cases (48 recovered, five deaths)
  • M.D. of Lesser Slave River: 27 cases (four active, 23 recovered)
  • M.D. of Peace: 63 cases (29 active, 34 recovered)
  • M.D. of Fairview: 43 cases (25 active, 18 recovered)
  • Clear Hills County: 97 cases (one active, 96 recovered, one death)
  • Northern Sunrise County: 14 cases (five active, nine recovered)
  • County of Northern Lights: 61 cases (two active, 59 recovered)
  • Mackenzie County: 418 cases (nine active, 396 recovered, 13 deaths)

The province added 644 new cases on Sunday, following approximately 13,000 tests being completed, creating an approximate positivity rate of five per cent.

Hospitalizations remain low in the North Zone with seven people in hospital, three of whom are in an ICU. Across Alberta, 192 people are in hospital, with 39 of those individuals in an ICU.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, announced that there were seven more deaths linked to COVID-19 on Sunday. The province’s COVID-19 death toll now sits at 369.