Courtesy of Alberta Health

By EverythingGP Staff

COVID-19 Update: March 28

13 new COVID-19 cases, eight recoveries recorded in Grande Prairie

Mar 28, 2021 | 3:43 PM

The City of Grande Prairie added 13 new cases of COVID-19 and eight recoveries for Saturday, March 27, raising the number of active cases in the Swan City to 197.

Eight new cases and two recoveries were recorded in the County of Grande Prairie as well, raising the number of active cases there to 84 as of March 27.

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Across Alberta, there were 644 new cases identified after 11,953 tests were processed. Those tests had a positivity rate of about 5.4 per cent.

There were also 235 new cases in Alberta involving variants of concern. Of the 7,698 active cases in Alberta, 25.3 per cent involve variants of concern (1,972).

Updated case totals among Peace Region municipalities as of the end of day March 27 are as follows:

• City of Grande Prairie: 2,025 cases (197 active, 1,805 recovered, 23 deaths)
• County of Grande Prairie: 619 cases (84 active, 531 recovered, four deaths)
• M.D. of Greenview: 451 cases (29 active, 419 recovered, three deaths)
• Birch Hills County: 12 cases (all recovered)
• M.D. of Spirit River: 51 cases (four active, 47 recovered)
• Saddle Hills County: 14 cases (all recovered)
• M.D. of Smoky River: 112 cases (102 recovered, 10 deaths)
• Big Lakes County: 476 cases (11 active, 454 recovered, 11 deaths)
• M.D. of Lesser Slave River: 262 cases (nine active, 253 recovered)
• M.D. of Peace: 494 cases (18 active, 476 recovered)
• M.D. of Fairview: 62 cases (four active, 57 recovered, one death)
• Clear Hills County: 106 cases (105 recovered, one death)
• Northern Sunrise County: 246 cases (six active, 239 recovered, one death)
• County of Northern Lights: 99 cases (one active, 98 recoveries)
• Mackenzie County: 1,238 cases (156 active, 1,063 recovered, 19 deaths)
  

Hospitalizations in Alberta fell to 277, with 63 of those people in an ICU. In the North Zone, 26 people are in hospital, five of whom are in intensive care.

Three more deaths were reported to Alberta Health from COVID-19. The provincial death toll now sits at 1,983.

An additional 17,500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered in Alberta Saturday, bringing the total to 594,723. A total of 96,477 Albertans have received two doses.