Alberta reported 42 new COVID-19 related deaths over the past seven days.
Overall, there have been 4,832 COVID-19 related deaths in Alberta since the start of the pandemic.
From Aug. 30 to Sept. 5, the province reported 1,084 new cases of the virus with a test positivity rate around 16.68 per cent.
There are now 799 people in hospital infected with COVID-19 province-wide, including 20 in the ICU. That’s 58 fewer people in hospital compared to last week.
In the Central Zone, there are 87 people in hospital, up four from last week, with none in the ICU.
Twenty-seven new cases were identified in the City of Red Deer over the seven-day period ending this past Monday, according to geospatial mapping on the provincial government’s website.
Over that same time period, 12 cases were identified in Red Deer County, four in Lacombe County, and four in the City of Lacombe.
Over that same time period, Mountain View County recorded five, Sylvan Lake had three, Clearwater County three, two were identified in Stettler County and none were reported in Olds.
The City of Camrose added four new cases, Drumheller added three, Camrose County added three and Kneehill County did not add any cases.
Wetaskiwin County, including Maskwacis, had nine new cases over the past seven days, while Rimbey, including West Ponoka County and parts of Lacombe County, had none and Ponoka, including east Ponoka County, had two.