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Courtesy of Alberta Health
By Shaun Penner
COVID-19 UPDATE: March 11

Grande Prairie adds 14 new COVID-19 cases, 10 recoveries

Mar 11, 2021 | 3:53 PM

The City of Grande Prairie added 14 new cases of COVID-19 and 10 recoveries for March 10, bringing the city’s active case total to 204.

The County of Grande Prairie added six new cases and five recoveries, raising the active caseload by one to 75.

Across Alberta, there were 364 new cases identified following the completion of 10,167 tests. The provincial positivity rate sits at around four per cent.

Updated case totals among Peace Region municipalities as of the end of day March 10 are as follows:

  • City of Grande Prairie: 1,780 cases (204 active, 1,553 recovered, 23 deaths)
  • County of Grande Prairie: 517 cases (75 active, 439 recovered, three deaths)
  • M.D. of Greenview: 420 cases (41 active, 376 recovered, three deaths)
  • Birch Hills County: 12 cases (all recovered)
  • M.D. of Spirit River: 47 cases (all recovered)
  • Saddle Hills County: 14 cases (all recovered)
  • M.D. of Smoky River: 113 cases (one active, 102 recovered, 10 deaths)
  • Big Lakes County: 464 cases (four active, 449 recovered, 11 deaths)
  • M.D. of Lesser Slave River: 254 cases (four active, 250 recovered)
  • M.D. of Peace: 478 cases (43 active, 435 recovered)
  • M.D. of Fairview: 58 cases (one active, 56 recovered, one death)
  • Clear Hills County: 106 cases (105 recovered, one death)
  • Northern Sunrise County: 240 cases (five active, 234 recovered, one death)
  • County of Northern Lights: 96 cases (five active, 91 recoveries)
  • Mackenzie County: 976 cases (132 active, 826 recovered, 18 deaths)
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Hospitalizations sat at 259 as of Wednesday night, with 38 of those Albertans in an ICU. In the North Zone, 28 people are in hospital, with one in an ICU.

There were five additional deaths reported to Alberta Health on Thursday, bringing the provincial death toll to 1,933 exactly one year after the World Health Organization declared a pandemic over the spread of COVID-19.

A total of 317,574 doses of vaccine have been administered in Alberta, which is an increase of 8,612 over the last 24 hours. 91,366 Albertans have been fully immunized.

by Shaun Penner