The City of Grande Prairie added 39 new COVID-19 cases, along with 25 recoveries over the last four days. (Photo: Government of Alberta)

By Shaun Penner

COVID-19 UPDATE: November 3

Grande Prairie adds 39 new COVID-19 cases over four days, 2,268 in Alberta

Nov 3, 2020 | 3:54 PM

The City of Grande Prairie added 39 new cases of COVID-19 between October 30 and November 2, while the province added over 500 new cases each of the last four days.

Active cases increased to 105 in the Swan City as of the end of day Monday, as there were 25 more recoveries, bringing that total to 199. There were no fatalities reported in the City, keeping the death toll in the City at two.

Outbreaks were reported at two seniors’ facilities in Grande Prairie over the weekend, including at the Grande Prairie Care Centre and the Prairie Lakes Seniors Facility. The outbreak at the Care Centre has five active cases linked to it, according to Alberta Health. It is not known at this time if they are within staff, residents, or a mix of both.

The Prairie Lakes outbreak has three recovered cases, and was re-added to the list after one more recovered case was linked to it. The facility was removed from outbreak site list last week with two recovered cases, after it had gone four weeks with no new transmission. The addition of the third case prompted the facility to be readded to the list.

Elsewhere in the Peace Region, the County of Grande Prairie added 13 new cases and eight more recoveries, leaving 26 active cases there. There were four more cases reported in the MD of Greenview, where there are now nine active cases, six of which are in the Valleyview area and three in the Grande Cache area.

Updated case numbers among Peace Region municipalities as of the end of day November 2 are as follows:

• City of Grande Prairie: 306 cases (105 active, 199 recovered, two deaths)
• County of Grande Prairie: 106 cases (26 active, 80 recovered)
• M.D. of Greenview: 28 cases (nine active, 18 recovered, one death)
• Birch Hills County: Five cases (all recovered)
• M.D. of Spirit River: 28 cases (two active, 26 recovered)
• Saddle Hills County: Four cases (all recovered)
• M.D. of Smoky River: 76 cases (one active, 65 recovered, ten deaths)
• Big Lakes County: 53 cases (48 recovered, five deaths)
• M.D. of Lesser Slave River: 25 cases (six active, 18 recovered, one death)
• M.D. of Peace: 42 cases (13 active, 29 recovered)
• M.D. of Fairview: 32 cases (16 active, 16 recovered)
• Clear Hills County: 97 cases (two active, 94 recovered, one death)
• Northern Sunrise County: Nine cases (all recovered)
• County of Northern Lights: 61 cases (three active, 58 recovered)
• Mackenzie County: 416 cases (eight active, 395 recovered, 13 deaths)

The province added an average of 567 new cases of COVID-19 over the last four days (581 on Friday, 525 on Saturday, 592 on Sunday and 570 on Monday). The new cases come as 13,151 tests were processed on Friday (4.4 per cent positivity rate), 13,180 on Saturday (4 per cent positivity rate), 11,287 on Sunday (5.3 per cent positivity rate) and 8,418 on Monday (6.8 per cent positivity rate).

Tests for 2,133 more people from the North Zone were processed over the last four days, bringing the total since March to 124,996.

Hospitalizations remain low in the North Zone, as there are five people in hospital, two of whom are in an ICU as of the end of day Monday. Alberta-wide, there are 167 people in hospital, 100 of whom are in Edmonton. Twenty-seven of those people hospitalized in Alberta are in intensive care.

The province reported 15 additional deaths linked to COVID-19 over the last four days, none of which were reported in the North Zone. A total of 338 Albertans have now died from COVID-19, 35 of whom are from the North Zone.

There are now 6,110 active cases of COVID-19 in Alberta, while 23,484 people have recovered.