• 936 new cases (931 net w/adjustments to past days)
• 10,809 active cases
• 328 patients in hospital, including 76 in ICU
• 3 more deaths. 2,001 total
• 1,370 new cases (1,351 net w/adjustments to past days)
• 11,464 active cases
• 333 patients in hospital, including 79 in ICU
• 1 more death. 2,002 total
• 1085, 1075, 952, 891 new cases Th, Fr, Sa, Su (1081, 1071, 948, 887 net w/adjustments to past days)
• 10,582 active cases
• 312 in hosp., 76 in ICU
• 4 more deaths. 1,998 total
For those wondering why the COVID-19 positivity rate in Alberta jumped so suddenly today, especially in the Central Zone, here's a quick explanation in a short (I promise!) thread...
If you look closely at the individual case data released today (shown here filtered in an Excel spreadsheet), you'll notice something a little funky.
There are dozens of cases dated March 29 among men in their 20s to 40s in the Central Zone, all listed as "recovered"...
It usually takes 14 days for a case to go from being considered "active" to "recovered," so the uniformity of this unusual batch of "recovered" cases — dated yesterday — suggests it was late-arriving data from a group setting of mostly men.