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Lethbridge with another case of COVID-19; 81% of Alberta cases recovered

Alberta recording 50 new COVID-19 cases Thursday (May 14).

That puts the province’s total to 6,457 total cases, though 81% of them (5,205) have recovered.

There are currently 65 people in hospital with the virus and 10 of them are in the ICU. One additional death has also been reported, a resident of a continuing care facility in Calgary.

At the moment there are 100 active cases in continuing care facilities across Alberta and 569 residents have recovered.

Here in the South Zone only four new cases are being reported since Wednesday’s data.

There is one additional case in Lethbridge for a total of 20 now. Of those, 15 have recovered and 5 are still active.

  • West Lethbridge: 7 cases (7 recovered)
  • South Lethbridge: 10 cases: (4 active, 6 recovered)
  • North Lethbridge: 3 cases (1 active, 2 recovered)

To date, just over 200,000 tests for COVID-19 have been conducted around the province with roughly 10% of all test in Alberta conducted in AHS South Zone.

Brooks has two of the four new cases on Thursday (total 1,070). The good news for that community is 91% of confirmed cases in Brooks are now classified as recovered.

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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