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By Shaun Penner
COVID-19 UPDATE: February 4

Active COVID-19 cases hold in City of Grande Prairie

Feb 4, 2021 | 3:51 PM

The City of Grande Prairie recorded 15 new cases of COVID-19 and 15 more recoveries for Thursday’s update. That keeps the number of active cases in the city at 136.

The new cases come as 582 new cases were reported by Alberta Health for February 3. Chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, says 421 of those new cases in Alberta were identified on Wednesday, while the other 161 were added from Tuesday’s testing.

Dr. Hinshaw says a technical issue with its reporting system was detected, with approximately 6,000 tests from Tuesday being left out of Wednesday’s reporting.

“This is a one time error, that only affected our public reporting, not the notification of positive cases,” explained Hinshaw Thursday. “This error has now been fixed and we are including them in today’s update.”

Meantime, there were five new cases recorded in the County of Grande Prairie, while there were also three more recoveries, bringing the active case total there to 42.

Updated case totals among Peace Region municipalities as of the end of day February 3 are as follows:

  • City of Grande Prairie: 1,216 cases (136 active, 1,059 recovered, 21 deaths)
  • County of Grande Prairie: 364 cases (42 active, 318 recovered, four deaths)
  • M.D. of Greenview: 301 cases (33 active, 266 recovered, two deaths)
  • Birch Hills County: Nine cases (all recovered)
  • M.D. of Spirit River: 44 cases (two active, 42 recovered)
  • Saddle Hills County: 15 cases (all recovered)
  • M.D. of Smoky River: 109 cases (two active, 97 recovered, 10 deaths)
  • Big Lakes County: 447 cases (21 active, 416 recovered, 10 deaths)
  • M.D. of Lesser Slave River: 210 cases (48 active, 162 recovered)
  • M.D. of Peace: 371 cases (36 active, 335 recovered)
  • M.D. of Fairview: 56 cases (55 recovered, one death)
  • Clear Hills County: 106 cases (one active, 104 recovered, one death)
  • Northern Sunrise County: 220 cases (11 active, 208 recovered, one death)
  • County of Northern Lights: 72 cases (one active, 71 recoveries)
  • Mackenzie County: 570 cases (44 active, 511 recovered, 15 deaths)
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Hospitalizations declined to 517 in Alberta for the end of day Wednesday, with 93 of those people in an ICU. In the North Zone, 59 people are in hospital, eight of them are in intensive care.

Thirteen more deaths linked to COVID-19 have been recorded in the province, growing the provincial death toll to 1,684 since last March.

by Shaun Penner