COVID-19: Dr. Deena Hinshaw to provide update Tuesday afternoon

The 3:30 p.m. press conference comes one day after Alberta’s Health Minister Jason Copping announced he had tested positive for COVID-19. In a series of tweets posted Monday afternoon, Copping said he began displaying symptoms last week. He took a rapid test which came back positive.

On Monday, the province reported that 1,007 Albertans were hospitalized with COVID-19, an increase of 185 since Friday. Of those, 94 are in intensive care units, an increase of 13. Alberta reported 6,293 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, 5,407 on Saturday and 4,186 on Sunday. However, Hinshaw has previously noted that the number of infections in the community is at least 10 times higher.

The province’s peak of hospitalizations was reached in the fourth wave, when 1,128 Albertans were recorded to be in hospital on Sept. 27.

More to come.