Airdrie, Rocky View County, and provincial COVID numbers heading into the weekend.
In the past 24 hours, Alberta Health Services identified 412 new cases of COVID-19 from 8,673 tests. This brings the provincial total of active COVID-19 cases to 5,293 Yesterday, there were 5,384 active cases in Alberta.
There are now 496 Albertans in the hospital due to COVID-19 with 93 Albertans in intensive care. Yesterday, these numbers were 498 and 94 respectively.
As for Alberta schools, there are active alerts or outbreaks in 174 schools. Of these, 4 schools are on outbreak status, including one school in Airdrie. To see a full list of Alberta school alerts or outbreaks CLICK HERE.
In the City of Airdrie, there are currently 79 active cases of COVID-19. This is the same number of active cases the city had yesterday.
The number of active cases of COVID-19 in Rocky View County is 63. This number remains unchanged from yesterday.
To date, the province has administered 6,772,885 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine with 88.2% of eligible Albertans having received one dose and 82.8% of eligible Albertans fully vaccinated with two doses. Health Canada has approved Pfizer vaccines for children aged 5 to 11 with shipments of the children-specific doses expected to arrive in Canada early next week. To book a first, second, or booster dose of the vaccine CLICK HERE.