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By Shaun Penner

COVID-19 UPDATE

Two COVID-19 recoveries in City of Grande Prairie, one new case in County

Aug 18, 2020 | 3:44 PM

Alberta added 89 new cases of COVID-19 for August 17, while there were two recoveries posted in the City of Grande Prairie and one new case in the County of Grande Prairie.

There are now 15 active cases in the City, while there are nine active in the County.

There are now 1,169 active cases in Alberta, while 11,025 cases are considered recovered. One more death has been attributed to COVID-19 by Alberta Health over the last 24 hours, bringing Alberta’s death toll from the novel coronavirus to 225.

Updated case numbers among Peace Region municipalities as of the end of day August 17 are as follows:

• City of Grande Prairie: 54 cases (15 active, 39 recovered)
• County of Grande Prairie: 32 cases (Nine active, 23 recovered)
• M.D. of Greenview: Eight cases (Seven recovered, one death)
• Birch Hills County: Three cases (One active, two recovered)
• M.D. of Spirit River: Three cases (All recovered)
• M.D. of Smoky River: 73 cases (63 recovered, ten deaths)
• Big Lakes County: 47 cases (One active, 41 recovered, five deaths)
• M.D. of Lesser Slave River: Five cases (All recovered)
• M.D. of Peace: 12 cases (Five active, seven recovered)
• M.D. of Fairview: Two Cases (Both recovered)
• Clear Hills County: 25 cases (One active, 24 recovered)
• Northern Sunrise County: Four cases (One active, four recovered)
• County of Northern Lights: 12 cases (Seven active, five recovered)
• Mackenzie County: 227 cases (50 active, 171 recovered, six deaths)

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Hospitalizations increased to 48 in Alberta, with ICU admissions at 11 in the province. In the North Zone, eight people are hospitalized with COVID-19, with two of those individuals in ICU.

Tuesday’s rise in case numbers comes as 8,027 tests were processed on Monday. There have now been 837,649 tests processed in Alberta since March on 677,754 people. In the North Zone, 57,447 people have been tested, an increase of 540 from the day prior.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, also provided an update on the COVID-19 outbreak linked to the It Is Time Canada event from July 30 to August 2 in the hamlet of Deadwood, near Manning. After Northern Health in BC identified 17 cases linked to that event, Dr. Hinshaw says there are 15 in Alberta that are a result of that event.

“An estimated 200-300 people attended over the course of the three day gathering,” said Hinshaw. “We are working with BC Health to ensure that contact tracing is completed for all those who attended.”

Dr. Hinshaw is asking anyone who attended, or is a close contact of someone who did attend, to book a COVID-19 test.