Courtesy of Alberta Health / Government of Alberta

By Curtis Galbraith

COVID-19 update: February 7

19 new COVID-19 cases in Grande Prairie, seven recoveries

Feb 7, 2021 | 4:01 PM

Grande Prairie’s number of active COVID-19 cases has increased by 12 since Saturday’s update.

The Sunday update from Alberta Health says the Swan City now has 155 active cases. The number was 143 Saturday. There have been 19 new cases detected and seven more people have recovered.

The County of Grande Prairie has had three more cases detected. The active case count is also up three to 34.

Birch Hills County is now up to two active cases from one. Big Lakes County is up three to 23.

Three new cases have been found in the MD of Greenview. It has also had three more recoveries, leaving its active case total at 36.

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Nine new cases have been found in Mackenzie County. Its active case count has gone from 42 to 51.

Updated numbers for municipalities around the Peace Country are as follows:

• City of Grande Prairie: 1,259 cases (155 active, 1,083 recovered, 21 deaths)
• County of Grande Prairie: 369 cases (34 active, 331 recovered, four deaths)
• M.D. of Greenview: 311 cases (36 active, 273 recovered, two deaths)
• Birch Hills County: 11 cases (two active, nine recovered)
• M.D. of Spirit River: 44 cases (two active, 42 recovered)
• Saddle Hills County: 15 cases (all recovered)
• M.D. of Smoky River: 109 cases (99 recovered, 10 deaths)
• Big Lakes County: 453 cases (23 active, 420 recovered, 10 deaths)
• M.D. of Lesser Slave River: 219 cases (45 active, 174 recovered)
• M.D. of Peace: 374 cases (36 active, 338 recovered)
• M.D. of Fairview: 56 cases (55 recovered, one death)
• Clear Hills County: 106 cases (105 recovered, one death)
• Northern Sunrise County: 224 cases (15 active, 208 recovered, one death)
• County of Northern Lights: 75 cases (four active, 71 recoveries)
• Mackenzie County: 584 cases (51 active, 518 recovered, 15 deaths
  

Four more Albertans have died of COVID-19. The province-wide total is now at 1,709. None of the deaths were in northwestern Alberta.

Hospitalizations have taken drop across the province from 457 to 434, with ICU admissions down three to 81.

If that number can stay below for 450 for three straight weeks, the province will then re-evaluate whether it’s safe enough to progress to the next step of its plan to ease restrictions. Step one is set to commence Monday.

In the North Zone, hospitalizations are down six to 46 while the number of those patients in intensive care remains at eight.

Alberta now has 6,242 active cases of COVID-19. The 8241 tests done for February 6 turned up 351 new ones.

The province says 118,384 vaccine doses have been given out.