Alberta COVID-19 numbers hit two-month high with 77 new cases - Calgary Herald

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Alberta reported 77 new COVID-19 cases Friday, the biggest single-day jump in case numbers for the province in more than two months.

The last time Alberta recorded more new cases of the novel coronavirus was on May 9, when public-health officials reported 85 cases of the disease.

The new cases are spread out around Alberta, with the province’s Calgary zone having the most new cases, with 30. The Edmonton and South zones come next, with 23 and 14 new cases respectively.

The spike brings Alberta’s total to 8,596 since the province first discovered someone infected with the coronavirus in early March. Of those cases, 592 remain active, an uptick from 584 Thursday.

The 77 new cases come from about 7,800 tests — or, about a one per cent positive test rate.

Alberta’s death toll from COVID-19 is now 160, down from 161 Thursday after the province determined that one previously reported death — a patient at Edmonton’s Misericordia Community Hospital — did not have the coronavirus as a contributing cause.

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2020-07-10 23:03:45Z
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