Alberta has reached a total of 2,562 cases of COVID-19, the province confirmed in a news release on Saturday. Of those, nearly half are recovered and over 71 per cent of the total cases have been reported in the Calgary zone.
There are 1,162 recoveries, meaning there are currently 1,400 active COVID-19 cases in Alberta. An additional Albertan has died, a woman in her 90s in the Calgary zone, bringing the province’s death toll to 51.
The woman was not in a care centre, according to the province. So far, there have been 35 deaths in the Calgary zone, eight in the Edmonton zone, seven in the North zone and one in the Central zone. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] The province said that out of the