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Jan 4, 2022 · There are now 34,276 active reported cases of COVID-19 in Alberta, although Premier Jason Kenney said Tuesday that that number is based on PCR tests and the real total is much higher.
- New Cases
- Vaccinations
- New Variants
- New Cases by Health Zone
- Hospitalizations
- Deaths
- Active and Recovered Cases
- How Testing Has Changed Over Time
- Age of Patients
These are the figures that tend to be front and centre in the daily updates about COVID-19. There are some issues with relying on new-case data, alone, as the number of cases you detect is related to the amount of testing you do and who you're testing (more on that in a moment). But the advantage of looking at new cases is that they tend to be a le...
Vaccinations continue to roll out to more and more Albertans, but the pace of immunization has ebbed and flowed along with the supply of vaccine arriving from manufacturers to the federal government, which then distributes them to Alberta. This next chart shows vaccination progress in terms of the total number of doses distributed to Alberta (the d...
In early 2021, Alberta Health started reporting more data on new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19. Two variants of particular concern are known as alpha or B117 (which originated in the United Kingdom) and Beta or B1351 (which originated in South Africa.) A variant known as Gamma or P1 (which originated in Brazil) was later added to this ...
Alberta Health breaks the province down into five broad health zones: South, Calgary, Central, Edmonton and North. (The names are pretty self-explanatory but if you want to see the precise boundaries of each zones, here's a link to a PDF map.) This next chart shows new cases, by day, broken down by health zone. Each column in this chart is a "stack...
While much of the COVID-19 reporting focuses on the number of cases, experts are also closely tracking the number of hospitalizations. Hospitalization data is more of a lagging indicator, as it typically takes longer for someone who gets sick with COVID-19 to end up in hospital than it does for them to test positive for the virus. There can also be...
Hundreds of Albertans have now died of COVID-19 but the rate of deaths has fluctuated throughout the pandemic. This next chart shows the number of deaths, by day. There is often a lag between when a person dies and when it is reported to Alberta Health, so the number of deaths for the most recent few days tends to be under-reported. The vast majori...
Another term you often hear in discussion of COVID-19 is the number of "active" and "recovered" cases. In general, Alberta Health says a recovered case is defined as: 1. Anyone who is healthy after 14 days have passed, if they did not experience severe symptoms requiring hospitalization. 2. Anyone who has gone 10 days from their date of discharge f...
It the earliest stages of the outbreak, testing focused on international travellers returning to Alberta and their close contacts. On March 23, 2020, the province imposed stricter limits on who could get tested, giving a higher priority to those most at risk from COVID-19 and to health-care workers. Given that testing capacity was limitedat that ti...
The age of Albertans who are diagnosed with COVID-19 has varied over the course of the pandemic. At different times, the disease was being found more often in younger people, older people or middle-aged people due to a variety of factors. This next chart shows the case ratesin five broad age groups. Because the number of Albertans in each age group...
Aug 4, 2022 · The number of Albertans who have died since the pandemic began is now 4,673. As of Monday, 702 people were in hospital with COVID-19, including 28 intensive care unit patients.
Feb 16, 2022 · The province reported 888 new cases of COVID-19, detected through 3,804 PCR tests with a positivity rate around 24.48 per cent. The seven-day average for test positivity is 27.85 per cent.
Sep 27, 2021 · The latest COVID-19 numbers: Alberta reported 5,181 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend: 1,882 new cases out of 15,898 tests on Friday. 1,541 new cases out of 14,846 tests on Saturday.
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Aug 24, 2022 · The number of Albertans to die from COVID-19 since the pandemic is now 4,748, an increase of 27 people from a week ago, when total COVID-19 deaths were 4,721. As of Tuesday, there were 870...
Aug 30, 2021 · The latest COVID-19 numbers: Alberta reported 3,056 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend: 1,231 new cases on Friday, out of 11,415 tests. 960 new cases on Saturday, out of 9,526 tests.
