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Courtesy: Alberta Health / Government of Alberta
By Shaun Penner
COVID-19 UPDATE: February 8

Grande Prairie adds 12 new COVID-19 cases

Feb 8, 2021 | 3:43 PM

The City of Grande Prairie recorded 12 new cases of COVID-19 for Sunday while also adding one more recovery, raising the active case total in the city to 166 as of the end of day February 7.

The County of Grande Prairie, meantime, added five new cases, bringing the active case load in the area to 39.

One of the deaths previously reported in the County has also been removed, as Alberta Health says four previously reported deaths in the province have been determined post-mortem to not have COVID-19 as a contributing cause, therefore the cases have been removed.

With that, the net increase in the provincial deaths for Monday’s update is one, after five new deaths were reported. There have now been three deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the County, with 1,710 recorded across Alberta.

Updated case totals among Peace Region municipalities as of the end of day February 8 are as follows:

  • City of Grande Prairie: 1,271 cases (166 active, 1,084 recovered, 21 deaths)
  • County of Grande Prairie: 374 cases (39 active, 332 recovered, three deaths)
  • M.D. of Greenview: 311 cases (35 active, 274 recovered, two deaths)
  • Birch Hills County: 11 cases (two active, nine recovered)
  • M.D. of Spirit River: 45 cases (three active, 42 recovered)
  • Saddle Hills County: 15 cases (all recovered)
  • M.D. of Smoky River: 109 cases (99 recovered, 10 deaths)
  • Big Lakes County: 458 cases (28 active, 420 recovered, 10 deaths)
  • M.D. of Lesser Slave River: 220 cases (44 active, 176 recovered)
  • M.D. of Peace: 374 cases (34 active, 340 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 (14 active, 209 recovered, one death)
  • County of Northern Lights: 75 cases (four active, 71 recoveries)
  • Mackenzie County: 584 cases (52 active, 518 recovered, 15 deaths)

There were 269 new cases added in Alberta on Sunday, following the completion of 6,184 tests. The positivity rate on those tests comes back at 4.3 per cent.

Hospitalizations declined to 432 province-wide, with 76 of those individuals in an ICU. In the North Zone, 53 people are in hospital, with seven of those people in intensive care.

Alberta Health adds 120,357 doses of vaccine have been administered as of February 7.

by Shaun Penner