the province is pressing pause on a plan to significantly scale back COVID-19 testing and contact tracing and to no longer require people with the disease to self-isolate, the province announced it has identified 582 new coronavirus cases.With the new cases, Alberta’s total number of active COVID-19 cases had reached 4,438 by Friday afternoon.
Of those cases, 1,790 are in the Calgary zone, 1,063 are in the Edmonton zone, 639 are in the South zone, 623 are in the North zone, 313 are in the Central zone and 10 are not linked to any particular zone.The number of people in Alberta hospitals with COVID-19 also rose on Friday up to 152, six more than the previous day.