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Courtesy of Alberta Health
By Shaun Penner
COVID-19 UPDATE: September 3

Grande Prairie adds 48 new COVID-19 cases, 47 recoveries

Sep 3, 2021 | 3:53 PM

The City of Grande Prairie added 48 new cases of COVID-19 along with 47 recoveries for Thursday, September 2, bringing the active case total in the Swan City up to 492.

In the County of Grande Prairie, active COVID-19 cases decreased by three to 177, after 16 new cases and 19 recoveries were recorded there.

Across Alberta, there were 1,401 new cases identified Thursday, following the completion of 12,551 tests. Those tests had a positivity rate of 11.1 per cent.

The new cases come as the province instituted new measures, which take effect Saturday, to curb the rise in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

READ MORE: Mandatory masks indoors, $100 vaccine incentive among Alberta’s measures to curb COVID-19’s spread

Active case totals, as of September 2 among Peace Region municipalities, are as follows:

  • City of Grande Prairie: 492 active (+1)
  • County of Grande Prairie: 177 active (-3)
  • MD of Greenview: 78 active (+11)
  • Birch Hills County: one active (-3)
  • MD of Spirit River: seven active (+1)
  • Saddle Hills County: four active (-)
  • MD of Peace: 81 active (+6)
  • MD of Fairview: 14 active (+2)
  • MD of Smoky River: 16 active (-3)
  • Big Lakes County: 77 active (+8)
  • Clear Hills County: four active (-)
  • County of Northern Lights: 22 active (+2)
  • Northern Sunrise County: 30 active (+6)
  • Mackenzie County: 118 active (+7)
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Across the province, hospitalizations grew by 28 in the last 24 hours to 515, with 118 people in the ICU, an increase of four from the day prior.

In the North Zone, 61 people are in hospital (down two) with eight of those patients in the ICU (unchanged).

Two more deaths from COVID-19 were reported to Alberta Health over the last 24 hours. A total of 2,390 Albertans have now died from COVID-19 complications.

In Grande Prairie, 60.3 per cent of residents who are eligible (those aged 12 and up) have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 52.2 per cent of the eligible population have been fully vaccinated.

In Alberta, 78.3 per cent of the eligible population have received one dose of the vaccine, while 70.2 per cent of those eligible are fully vaccinated.

by Shaun Penner