COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total number of active cases in the province to 5,293.The province conducted 8,673 COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours.
The positivity rate wasn’t provided on the government’s site as of publishing. Health Canada approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11 On Friday, there were 496 people receiving care in hospital for COVID-19, with 93 of those people in the ICU.Two additional COVID-19 deaths were reported to the province over the past 24 hours.There have now been 3,211 COVID-19 deaths in the province since the pandemic began.The Calgary zone continued to have the most active COVID-19 cases with 1,829.