Two new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in City of Grande Prairie
With the increase in testing capacity for COVID-19 in Alberta, the City of Grande Prairie has added two newly confirmed cases as of April 17, while the County of Grande Prairie added two more cases of its own on Friday to bring that area’s total to five.
Regional reporting data was re-launched on Friday, following an electrical fire late Tuesday night at the provincial data centre that halted the reporting of such information.
The two new cases in Grande Prairie are the first reported cases within city limits since March 20, when the first two cases were reported. There have now been four confirmed cases in the Swan City.
The province saw its largest daily increase in total new cases on Friday, as 239 cases were added across the province. That brings the province’s total number of confirmed cases to 2,397. 134 are lab-confirmed cases, while 105 are probable, according to Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw.