Courtesy of Alberta Health

By Shaun Penner

COVID-19 UPDATE: November 12

Grande Prairie adds 35 new COVID-19 cases, 22 recoveries over two days

Nov 12, 2021 | 3:53 PM

The City of Grande Prairie added 35 new cases of COVID-19 and 22 recoveries for Wednesday and Thursday, bringing the active case total in the Swan City up to 123.

In the County of Grande Prairie, there were 18 new cases and 10 recoveries reported over those two days, bringing the active case total to 66.

As a whole, Alberta added 470 new cases on Wednesday and 371 on Thursday, following the completion of 20,427 tests over the two days, resulting in a 4.1 per cent positivity rate.

Active case totals, as of November 11 among Peace Region municipalities, are as follows:

• City of Grande Prairie: 123 active (+13)
• County of Grande Prairie: 66 active (+8)
• MD of Greenview: 13 active (-3)
• Birch Hills County: three active (-)
• MD of Spirit River: one active (-3)
• Saddle Hills County: seven active (-3)
• MD of Peace: 28 active (-)
• MD of Fairview: six active (-1)
• MD of Smoky River: five active (-)
• Big Lakes County: 42 active (-4)
• Clear Hills County: four active (-)
• County of Northern Lights: 10 active (-4)
• Northern Sunrise County: four active (-2)
• Mackenzie County: 86 active (-24)
  

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Across the province, hospitalizations declined by 28 to 554, with 110 of those patients in ICU, a decline of 13.

Of those admitted into intensive care with COVID-19, 86 are unvaccinated and 14 are fully vaccinated.

In the North Zone, 83 people are in hospital (down five), while six people are in the ICU (down one).

Seven deaths from COVID-19 were reported to Alberta Health over the last 48 hours, raising the provincial death toll to 3,171.

In Grande Prairie, 72.8 per cent of people who are eligible have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine (60.4 per cent of the total population), while 66.2 per cent of the eligible population has been fully vaccinated (54.9 per cent of the total population).

In Alberta, 87.7 per cent of eligible Albertans aged 12 and older have received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 81.8 per cent of those eligible are fully vaccinated.