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Alberta has not reported data on COVID-19 fatalities since Wednesday, when the province announced 19 additional deaths. To date, at least 890 Albertans have died from the novel coronavirus, including at least 310 in December alone.
Sunday’s update followed a milestone reached on Christmas Day, when the province recorded fewer than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 for the first time in more than a month.
On Saturday, Alberta reported an estimated 900 positive cases out of approximately 14,200 tests, a positivity rate of 6.3 per cent — a rate that was also the lowest since mid-November.
Alberta had last recorded fewer than 1,000 infections in a day on Nov. 17, when there were 730 new cases.
The most recent public-health measures imposed by Alberta officials have now been in place for two weeks or more. Orders mandated mask use in indoor, public spaces provincewide, and all indoor and outdoor social gatherings were banned Dec. 8, while closures of some businesses and restrictions on retail capacity began Dec. 13.
Hinshaw has said it typically takes about two weeks for public-health measures to reflect in daily case data, as the incubation period for COVID-19 is about 14 days.
On Wednesday, when the figures were last updated, Alberta had 17,821 active cases of the coronavirus, including 6,470 in the Alberta Health Services Calgary zone.
There were 821 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19 as of Wednesday, 146 of whom were in ICUs.
A full update on the coronavirus in Alberta, including a news conference from Hinshaw, will take place Monday.
— With files from Sammy Hudes
jherring@postmedia.com
Twitter: @jasonfherring
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