Alberta confirmed 96 new cases of COVID-19 Sunday, bringing the provincial total to 6,253. Another person in the province has died after contracting the virus, bringing Alberta’s death toll to 117.
The person who died was a man in his 70s in the South zone who was not connected to any continuing care centre or outbreak, Alberta Health said.
The total active cases in the province now sit at 1,747, meaning that 70 per cent of people who tested positive for the disease so far in Alberta have now recovered.
Here are the active and recovered COVID-19 numbers for each zone: The province said that one person who had previously been recorded as a death in the Calgary zone was a misreported case that had actually occurred in the North zone.