Active COVID-19 cases climb back over 1,000 mark as Alberta reports 387 cases over past 3 days

COVID-19 is once again on the rise in Alberta as the province's new cases, active cases and R-value continue to inch higher.

On Monday, the province reported 387 cases over the past three days. Here's the information for each reporting date:

• July 25, 94 cases,5,372 tests,1.79 per cent positivity rate.
• July 24, 142 cases, 6,289 tests,2.18 per cent positivity rate.
• July 23, 151 cases,6,077 tests,2.42 per cent positivity rate.

Active cases of COVID-19are now at1,083 a significant rise from two weeks prior (July 11) when there were 619 active cases.

Here's how active cases break down regionally:

• Calgary zone: 654.
• Edmonton zone: 203.
• South zone: 85.
• North zone: 83.
• Central zone: 53
• Unknown: 5.

The R-value,which represents the number of people infected by each person, is now above 1.0 provincewide, for the first time since May. Here's the latest R-value information for Alberta for July 19 to July 25:

• Provincewide: 1.48 (confidence interval1.38-1.59)
• Edmonton zone: 1.37 (confidence interval1.15-1.61)
• Calgary zone: 1.50 (confidence interval1.37-1.64)
• Rest of Alberta: 1.48 (confidence interval1.26-1.73)

For comparison, the provincewide R-value for the previous two-week period was0.84, with a confidence interval of 0.74 to 0.94.

There were no newCOVID-19 deaths reported over the past three days so the total remains unchanged at2,322.

Hospitalizations declined by one since Friday. Thereare now83 people in hospital with COVID-19, including 21 in intensive care.

Alberta lab screening detected another374cases of coronavirus variants of concern, of which 347 are the highly contagious delta variant. There are now 787 active variant cases in Alberta.

About 75.4per cent ofthe eligible population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while63.4per cent have had two doses.

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