COVID-19 Friday and seven additional deaths from the disease.With about 18,955 tests completed, Alberta’s positivity rate was at 10.6 per cent Friday.The active case count now stands at 21,828 across Alberta.Alberta identified 989 variant cases of concern.
Variants now make up 61.6 per cent of active cases of COVID-19 provincewide.Hospitalizations also continue to increase, with 649 people in hospital with COVID-19 Friday.
Of those, 152 are being treated in intensive care. Anyone 50+ can book COVID-19 vaccine Friday as Alberta expands eligibility Of the seven deaths reported in the previous 24 hours, three were in the Calgary zone, two were in the North zone and two were in the Central zone.A man in his 80s and woman in her 80s both died.