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COVID-19 curve continues to flatten in Alberta; 54 new cases Thursday

Only 54 new COVID-19 cases in Alberta Thursday (May 7).

As of now, there have been 6,017 total cases and 63% of them are considered recovered. There have also been two additional deaths since Wednesday’s update for a total of 114.

Just over 174,000 tests have been done province-wide as well.

Here in the South Zone, there were only 13 new cases reported since Wednesday with 12 of them in the City of Brooks and one in Cypress County.

Brooks now has 1,032 cases which is 92% of all the cases in AHS South Zone.

Lethbridge remains at 18 cases (6 are active and 12 recovered). The data below is unchanged from Wednesday.

  • West Lethbridge: 7 cases (7 recovered)
  • South Lethbridge: 9 cases: (4 active, 5 recovered)
  • North Lethbridge: 2 cases (2 active)
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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