Alberta’s Latest COVID-19 Cases – Includes more young people.

  • On April 29 Alberta reported its highest total of active cases since the pandemic began, with 21,385 active cases.
  • The province continues to have the highest active case rate in Canada, with more than 480 active cases per 100,000 people. 
  • Alberta reported 2,048 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.
  • Meantime, more Albertans in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s are ending up in ICU with COVID-19 than ever before, according to a breakdown of data published by Alberta Health. People admitted to ICU in recent weeks have been significantly younger than those admitted over the winter, when a devastating second wave of infection swamped hospitals with critically ill patients. 
  • There are now 632 people in hospital with COVID-19, including 151 people in intensive care. That is the most patients in ICU that Alberta has seen at any point during the pandemic.
  • Three more people have died, for a total of 2,075 deaths.
  • The provincial positivity rate was 10.1 per cent on Thursday
  • 165,267 Albertans have recovered from COVID-19.
  • There are more than 700 active cases of COVID-19 tied to outbreaks at oil camps in northern Alberta. 
  • Currently, 750 schools, about 31 per cent of all schools in Alberta, are on alert or have outbreaks.
  • Due to an increase in the number of Albertans in the Calgary zone requesting a COVID-19 test, it may take three to five days from the time someone makes a request to when testing occurs, AHS said last week.
  • Alberta Health Services opened a temporary walk-up testing site in northeast Calgary on April 30. The site is located at the McKnight Westwinds Park and Ride lot, located at 6200 36 Street N.E.