By Shaun Penner

Four deaths in North

Three Manoir du Lac residents, Clear Hills County resident die from COVID-19 Wednesday

Apr 22, 2020 | 4:13 PM

Three more residents of the Manoir du Lac continuing care facility in McLennan have died, while the confirmed individual with COVID-19 in Clear Hills County has also passed away over the last 24 hours.

The deaths were among five new fatalities across Alberta Wednesday, bringing COVID-19’s death toll in Alberta to 66.

Ten residents of Manoir du Lac have now died from COVID-19 as of April 22.

Fourteen residents of Northern Alberta have succumbed to the novel coronavirus.

The province also announced its largest jump in daily new cases Wednesday, jumping by 306 across Alberta to bring the total to 3,401. Two new cases were added in the North Zone to bring the total to 150.

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One of those cases was identified at Sucker Creek First Nation, becoming the first confirmed case in an Indigenous community in Alberta. The individual has had contact with a known case in the High Prairie area, according to Alberta’s chief medical officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw, and is now self-isolating at home.

Sucker Creek is located about 20 kilometres east of High Prairie.

The case totals in Peace Region municipalities as of April 22 are as follows:

• City of Grande Prairie: Two cases (Both recovered)
• County of Grande Prairie: Five cases (Four active, one recovered)
• M.D. of Greenview: Two cases (One active, one recovered)
• M.D. of Smoky River: 50 cases (19 active, 21 recovered, ten deaths)
• Big Lakes County: 22 cases (Five active, 15 recovered, two deaths)
• M.D. of Lesser Slave River: Five cases (One active, four recovered)
• Northern Sunrise County: Three cases (All recovered)
• M.D. of Peace: Seven cases (One active, six recovered)
• Clear Hills County: One case (Fatal)
• County of Northern Lights: One case (Recovered)
• Mackenzie County: Ten cases (Nine active, one recovered)

70 Albertans are in hospital at this time, while 18 of those individuals are in Intensive Care.

8,779 people in Northern Alberta have been tested for COVID-19. 108,521 tests in total have been processed from across Alberta.

1,310 of all confirmed cases across the province have now recovered.