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AHS South Zone, entire province seeing slowing of COVID-19 cases

Only 70 new COVID-19 cases being reported in Alberta Monday (May 4).

That brings the total number of cases province-wide to 5,836 and 2,942 are considered recovered.

With the relatively low number of new cases, however comes news of 9 additional COVID-19 related deaths.

Eight of those new fatalities are in the Calgary Zone and one is in the South Zone in the City of Brooks. There have now been 104 to deaths in Alberta related to the novel coronavirus.

Brooks, meanwhile has seen a sharp drop in new cases. That city is seeing 9 new cases since Sunday for a total of 998. There were only 10 new cases in AHS South Zone over the past day. The other new case is in Medicine Hat. That city has a total of 33.

Lethbridge remains unchanged at 17 cases. One person has since recovered for a total of 12 recovered now and 5 still active.

  • West Lethbridge: 7 cases (all 7 recovered)
  • South Lethbridge: 8 cases (3 active, 5 recovered)
  • North Lethbridge: 2 cases (2 active)

Since the onset of the pandemic, there have been more than 164,000 COVID-19 tests completed across the province of Alberta.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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