COVID-19 Friday afternoon.Dr. Deena Hinshaw is expected to speak at 3:30 p.m. The news conference will be streamed live in this story.On Thursday, the province announced there were 15 new active cases of the novel coronavirus in the province.
There was one additional death. A total of 7,091 Albertans have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and 6,611 of those have recovered.
As of Thursday afternoon, there were 48 people in hospital with six patients in the ICU.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The Edmonton zone has had 566 cases, 98 have been reported in the Central zone, 1,243 people in the South zone have contracted the virus, and 251 became ill with COVID-19 in the north zone.