EDMONTON -- Alberta recorded its largest daily increase in new COVID-19 cases since near the start of the month with 430 new infections reported on Wednesday.
The increase in the largest in one day since the 582 reported on Feb. 4.
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Active cases continued to fall, down by 25 to 4,545, a level last seen in late October.
The number of active cases continues to decline but the rate of decrease has tailed off in the last week, with no triple-digit decreases since Feb. 17 and small increases recorded twice in the past week.
The province also reported 13 deaths, bringing its total to 1,866. Due to delays in death reporting only two of the deaths reported Wednesday occured in February, with five of them going back to December of 2020.
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients also continued its downwards trend with 307 reported in hospital, down 20 from Tuesday. The number of patients in intensive care units rose by five, up to 56.
Alberta reported a 4.64 per cent test positivity on based on 9,467 tests.
The province reported 22 new variant cases of COVID-19, all of them the B.1.1.7 "U.K." variant. Eighteen of those cases were recorded in the Calgary health zone, which is significantly larger than the city itself.
More than 186,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered so far.
Dr. Hinshaw returns Monday, March 1, for an in-person update.
