Grande Prairie adds 109 COVID-19 cases over Easter weekend, Hinshaw provides update on P.1 variant outbreaks
There were 109 new cases of COVID-19 identified in Grande Prairie over the Easter long weekend, along with 55 recoveries, there is currently 358 active cases of COVID-19 in the Swan City, the most at any time throughout the pandemic.
Over the long weekend, the County of Grande Prairie added 56 new cases and 22 recoveries, there are 151 active cases in the County.
From April 1-4 Alberta identified 3,987 new cases of COVID-19 on 45,654 tests, resulting in a positivity rate of 8.7 per cent.
There were 1,081 new cases identified on April 1; 1,072 on April 2; 948 on April 3; and 887 on April 4.