Alberta Reports 1,510 New COVID-19 Cases, 9 Deaths

EDMONTON –

Alberta on Thursday added more than 1,500 new cases of COVID-19 for the first time since mid-May.

Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr Deena Hinshaw also reported nine deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 43 in the past seven days and 2,434 since the start of the pandemic.

Active cases have reached nearly 16,000, up to their highest level since May 21.

There are now 679 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, including 154 in intensive care units.

Almost 79 percent of Albertans have one dose of the vaccine and just under 71 percent have two doses.

Seventy percent of the nearly 16,000 active cases of COVID-19 in Alberta have not received a vaccine and 73 percent in the hospital are not fully vaccinated.