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By Shaun Penner
COVID-19 UPDATE:

Grande Prairie adds 18 new COVID-19 cases

Dec 7, 2020 | 4:20 PM

The City of Grande Prairie added 18 new COVID-19 cases for December 6, alongside three recoveries, bringing the City’s active case total to 96 as of the end of day Sunday.

The County of Grande Prairie added no new cases and one recovery, bringing the active case total there to 19.

One new case and two recoveries were recorded in the MD of Greenview, which now has 22 active cases.

Updated case totals among Peace Region municipalities as of the end of day December 6 are as follows:

  • City of Grande Prairie: 547 cases (96 active, 446 recovered, five deaths)
  • County of Grande Prairie: 184 cases (19 active, 164 recovered, one death)
  • M.D. of Greenview: 104 cases (22 active, 81 recovered, one death)
  • Birch Hills County: Seven cases (one active, six recovered)
  • M.D. of Spirit River: 31 cases (two active, 29 recovered)
  • Saddle Hills County: Eight cases (all recovered)
  • M.D. of Smoky River: 80 cases (one active, 69 recovered, ten deaths)
  • Big Lakes County: 71 cases (16 active, 50 recovered, five deaths)
  • M.D. of Lesser Slave River: 77 cases (33 active, 44 recovered)
  • M.D. of Peace: 149 cases (35 active, 114 recovered)
  • M.D. of Fairview: 53 cases (two active, 50 recovered, one death)
  • Clear Hills County: 98 cases (97 recovered, one death)
  • Northern Sunrise County: 38 cases (22 active, 16 recovered)
  • County of Northern Lights: 69 cases (two active, 67 recovered)
  • Mackenzie County: 443 cases (15 active, 415 recovered, 13 deaths)

The province added 1,735 new cases for Thursday after 20,358 tests were processed. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, says Alberta’s test positivity rate sits at 8.5 per cent.

There are 609 Albertans in hospital as of Sunday night with COVID-19, 108 of whom are in an ICU. In the North Zone, 29 people are in hospital, five of whom are in intensive care.

Dr. Hinshaw also announced 16 more deaths linked to COVID-19 in Alberta. A total of 631 Albertans have now died from COVID-19 complications.

by Shaun Penner