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By Shaun Penner

COVID-19 UPDATE: November 25

City of Grande Prairie adds 15 new COVID-19 cases, eight recoveries

Nov 25, 2020 | 3:47 PM

The City of Grande Prairie added 15 new COVID-19 cases and eight recoveries for Tuesday, while the province of Alberta added 1,265 new cases for November 24.

There are now 85 active cases of COVID-19 in the City of Grande Prairie, to go along with 370 recoveries and four deaths.

Meanwhile, the County of Grande Prairie added no new cases along with three recoveries for Tuesday. There are now 38 active cases there.

There was also one new case added in the MD of Greenview and one recovery, keeping the active case total at 40.

Updated case totals among Peace Region municipalities as of the end of day November 24 are as follows:

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• City of Grande Prairie: 459 cases (85 active, 370 recovered, four deaths)
• County of Grande Prairie: 163 cases (38 active, 124 recovered, one death)
• M.D. of Greenview: 83 cases (40 active, 42 recovered, one death)
• Birch Hills County: Six cases (one active, five recovered)
• M.D. of Spirit River: 29 cases (one active, 28 recovered)
• Saddle Hills County: Eight cases (all recovered)
• M.D. of Smoky River: 79 cases (two active, 67 recovered, ten deaths)
• Big Lakes County: 56 cases (two active, 49 recovered, five deaths)
• M.D. of Lesser Slave River: 44 cases (13 active, 31 recovered)
• M.D. of Peace: 112 cases (24 active, 88 recovered)
• M.D. of Fairview: 51 cases (five active, 45 recovered, one death)
• Clear Hills County: 98 cases (97 recovered, one death)
• Northern Sunrise County: 16 cases (one active, 15 recovered)
• County of Northern Lights: 67 cases (four active, 63 recovered)
• Mackenzie County: 428 cases (seven active, 408 recovered, 13 deaths)

The province’s positivity rate for testing sat at 8.1 per cent, as 15,644 tests were processed at the provincial lab Tuesday.

There were eight more deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday in Alberta, where there have now been 500 recorded in the province since March.

Hospitalizations increased to 355 in Alberta, with 71 of those people in an ICU. In the North Zone, there are 21 people in hospital, two of whom are in intensive care.

With hospitalizations continuing to climb in the province for COVID-19, Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, said that in the coming weeks, AHS will allocate more than 2,000 acute care beds and up to 400 ICU beds specifically for those with COVID-19.

In some cases, these will be new beds. In others, existing beds will be utilized by taking measures such as acute care patients being moved to continuing care, where safe and appropriate.

With that, Dr. Hinshaw announced changes to hospital visitations, at sites where an outbreak has been declared or in communities that are under enhanced status.

The City and County of Grande Prairie, as well as the MD of Greenview, fall under an enhanced status.

“For patients admitted to hospital and in ambulatory care, including emergency departments, only one designated family or support person is permitted under specific circumstances.”

“For maternity and postpartum units, one designated family or support person will be permitted. A doula or surrogate may also be permitted.”

“For pediatrics and NICU, as well as critical care, up to two designated family or support persons are permitted.”

“In end of life situations, one designated family or support person is permitted and the presence of any other visitors must be pre-arranged with the site or unit.”

(With files from David Opinko, Lethbridge News Now)