COVID-19 situation in the province on Monday afternoon.Dr. Deena Hinshaw is set to speak at her usual time of 3:30 p.m. MT. Her update will be streamed live in this story post.Alberta has seen lower case numbers recently; over the weekend, Saturday and Sunday saw a total of 844 new cases added.
Comparatively, three weeks ago on the weekend of Jan. 9, there were a total of 1,800 new cases identified over that two-day period.As of this past weekend, there are 7,505 active cases of COVID-19 in Alberta, as well as 561 people in the province in hospital with the disease.
Of those in hospital, 101 are in intensive care. Alberta adds 461 COVID-19 cases, 8 deaths Sunday as active cases drop A total of 1,639 Albertans have died from COVID-19 since.