The province's chief medical officer of health got right to the latest data of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta on Thursday.
Over the last 24 hours, Dr. Deena Hinshaw confirmed 190 new cases of the virus in the province, bringing the total number of people who have been infected so far to 5,355. To date, provincial labs have processed 148,937 tests, with 5,051 new tests since yesterday.
Three more people have died from the virus, bringing the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the province to 89. (One death that had previously been attributed to COVID-19 has been confirmed not to have been caused by the virus.)
There are currently 3,105 active cases of COVID-19 in the province, and 2,161 people have recovered.
As of today, there are 544 people sick with COVID-19 in continuing care facilities in the province.
At High River's Cargill meat-packing plant, there have now been 908 total cases, 631 of whom have now recovered. There have been 333 confirmed cases among workers at the JBS plant in Brooks.
"While we continue to work to prevent transmissions in these outbreaks, we have seen low numbers maintained in most of the province. We cannot let up on outbreak control, but we can celebrate what we have accomplished," Hinshaw said.
"However, our fight is far from over. We must continue to use common sense to protect each other and help prevent the spread. Please continue to wash your hands frequently, stay home when sick, maintain physical distance and look out for each other in the days and weeks ahead.
"Today is the beginning of our next phase of protecting each other, and we will continue to need each other more than ever in the days ahead."
