Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Deena Hinshaw will provide an update on COVID-19 in the province at 3:30 pm on Thursday.
The update comes after the province reported 1,598 people are in hospital due to COVID-19 as of Wednesday. Of those, 106 are in intensive care.
It also comes after Premier Jason Kenney announced Tuesday afternoon that the Restrictions Exemption Program could be lifted by the end of February. Kenney will not be present at Thursday’s announcement.
Alberta Health announced Wednesday that 3,024 more COVID-19 cases were identified in the province in the past 24 hours out of 7,643 PCR tests. However, public health officials have noted that the true number of new COVID-19 cases is likely at least 10 times higher due to restrictions on who is eligible to receive a PCR test.
There were 34,877 active cases confirmed by PCR tests in the province as of Feb. 2.
The number of Albertans whose deaths have been linked to COVID-19 rose to 3,593 Wednesday.
The province’s positivity rate was 39.9 per cent.
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