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Courtesy of Alberta Health
By Shaun Penner
COVID-19 UPDATE: February 22

Grande Prairie adds 10 new COVID-19 cases, 16 recoveries

Feb 22, 2021 | 4:15 PM

The City of Grande Prairie saw its active case total decline, as there were 10 new cases and 16 recoveries recorded on Sunday, bringing the active caseload down to 234 as of the end of day Feb. 21.

The County, meanwhile, added one new case and no recoveries, raising the active case total there to 44.

In Alberta, there were a total of 273 new cases, after 6,062 new tests were completed. The province’s positivity rate sits at approximately 4.5 per cent.

Updated case totals among Peace Region municipalities as of the end of day February 21 are as follows:

  • City of Grande Prairie: 1,521 cases (234 active, 1,266 recovered, 21 deaths)
  • County of Grande Prairie: 419 cases (44 active, 372 recovered, three deaths)
  • M.D. of Greenview: 365 cases (60 active, 304 recovered, one death)
  • Birch Hills County: 12 cases (one active, 11 recovered)
  • M.D. of Spirit River: 47 cases (two active, 45 recovered)
  • Saddle Hills County: 14 cases (all recovered)
  • M.D. of Smoky River: 110 cases (one active, 99 recovered, 10 deaths)
  • Big Lakes County: 459 cases (14 active, 434 recovered, 11 deaths)
  • M.D. of Lesser Slave River: 242 cases (26 active, 216 recovered)
  • M.D. of Peace: 417 cases (41 active, 376 recovered)
  • M.D. of Fairview: 57 cases (one active, 55 recovered, one death)
  • Clear Hills County: 106 cases (105 recovered, one death)
  • Northern Sunrise County: 235 cases (12 active, 222 recovered, one death)
  • County of Northern Lights: 84 cases (10 active, 74 recoveries)
  • Mackenzie County: 714 cases (130 active, 568 recovered, 16 deaths)

Hospitalizations edged up by three to 324 as of Sunday night, with 53 people in an ICU. In the North Zone, 44 people are in hospital, with one in an ICU.

Sixteen more deaths linked to COVID-19 were reported by Alberta Health on Monday, many of which actually occurred in December and were confirmed post-mortem to have had COVID-19 as a contributing cause.

The province’s COVID-19 death toll now sits at 1,843.

173,539 doses of vaccine have now been administered in Alberta, with 69,362 Albertans now being fully immunized.

by Shaun Penner