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Courtesy of Alberta Health
By Shaun Penner
COVID-19 Update: March 13

Grande Prairie adds 14 new COVID-19 cases, 22 recoveries

Mar 13, 2021 | 3:43 PM

The City of Grande Prairie added 14 new cases of COVID-19 and 22 recoveries on March 12, lowering the number of active cases in the city to 189.

The County of Grande Prairie added 12 new cases and 10 recoveries, raising the active case total there to 77 as of the end of day Friday.

Across Alberta there were 474 new cases following the completion of 8,873 tests. Those tests came back with a positivity rate of 5.3 per cent.

Updated case totals among Peace Region municipalities as of the end of day March 12 are as follows:

  • City of Grande Prairie: 1,809 cases (189 active, 1,597 recovered, 23 deaths)
  • County of Grande Prairie: 532 cases (77 active, 452 recovered, three deaths)
  • M.D. of Greenview: 423 cases (42 active, 378 recovered, three deaths)
  • Birch Hills County: 12 cases (all recovered)
  • M.D. of Spirit River: 47 cases (all recovered)
  • Saddle Hills County: 14 cases (all recovered)
  • M.D. of Smoky River: 112 cases (102 recovered, 10 deaths)
  • Big Lakes County: 467 cases (seven active, 449 recovered, 11 deaths)
  • M.D. of Lesser Slave River: 255 cases (two active, 253 recovered)
  • M.D. of Peace: 479 cases (41 active, 438 recovered)
  • M.D. of Fairview: 58 cases (one active, 56 recovered, one death)
  • Clear Hills County: 106 cases (105 recovered, one death)
  • Northern Sunrise County: 240 cases (five active, 234 recovered, one death)
  • County of Northern Lights: 97 cases (three active, 94 recoveries)
  • Mackenzie County: 1,013 cases (140 active, 855 recovered, 18 deaths)
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Hospitalizations sat at 254 in Alberta as of Friday night, with 35 of those people in an ICU. In the North Zone there are 31 people in hospital, two of whom are in intensive care.

Five more deaths were reported to Alberta Health over the last 24 hours, bringing the provincial death toll to 1,940.

346,135 doses of vaccine have now been administered in Alberta, an increase of 12,756 doses from Thursday. There have also been 91,520 Albertans who have been fully vaccinated with two shots.

by Shaun Penner