Daily Covid-19 Briefing

Friday, March 18, 2022 - Prepared by ALPINE1

As of July 29, 2021 the Province of Alberta has begun reducing the number of Covid-19 tests performed. Caution should be applied when interpreting these daily case and trend values as they may not be reflective of the wider population.

Today 610 new cases of Covid-19 were identified in the province. The adjusted net total of cases is 502 including changes to previous case numbers between August 24th and March 16th.

The current 7 day trend of cases is 512, an increase of 0.06% from the day before. This time last week trend was 470. This is an increase of 9%. The 7 day trend currently sits at 8.3% of the previous peak, which reached 6,159 on January 10th, 2022.

There are 6,583 active cases within the province, up 31 from yesterday. This is an increase of 0.47% in the number of active cases. This time last week there were 6,878 active cases. This is a decrease of -4.3%. The current number of active cases is -63,640 under the previous peak of 70,223 on January 17th, 2022.

Selected changes in active case counts for municipalities:

  • City Of Calgary - 138 case rate per 100k
  • Sherwood Park - 213.7 case rate per 100k
  • City Of Airdrie - 111 case rate per 100k
  • Town Of Canmore - 175.3 case rate per 100k
  • City Of St. Albert - 143.7 case rate per 100k

The top hotspot municipalities in the provice by active case rates per 100,000 people are currently:

  • County Of Minburn No. 27: 567.8 case rate per 100k
  • Municipal District Of Provost No. 52: 473.2 case rate per 100k
  • Municipal District Of Spirit River No. 133: 455 case rate per 100k
  • Smoky Lake County: 441.6 case rate per 100k
  • Municipal District Of Willow Creek No. 26: 423.5 case rate per 100k

Currently there are a total of 966 patients in hospital, with 62 in intensive care and 904 in non-intensive care. Total net hospitalizations are down -20 from yesterday, with net -5 ICU patients and net -15 non-ICU patients. This time last week there were 77 patients in ICUs, representing a decrease of -19%. The total number of new hospital admissions was 33:

  • 2 new admissions for 1-4 years
  • 1 new admissions for 5-9 years
  • 1 new admissions for 10-19 years
  • 1 new admissions for 20-29 years
  • 1 new admissions for 30-39 years
  • 2 new admissions for 40-49 years
  • 2 new admissions for 50-59 years
  • 5 new admissions for 60-69 years
  • 7 new admissions for 70-79 years
  • 11 new admissions for 80+ years

A total of 4 new deaths were reported in the province today (new deaths and updated date of death information counts may not match):

  • A female, aged 70-79 years old from the North Zone
  • A female, aged 70-79 years old from the North Zone
  • A male, aged 80+ years old from the Edmonton Zone
  • A female, aged 80+ years old from the Central Zone

Yesterday 3,092 doses of vaccine were administered in the province. The total adjusted number of doses administered is 3,291 including changes to previously reported doses between March 15th and March 16th. A total of 8,550,867 doses of vaccine have been administered thus far.

What is ALPINE1?

This is the first generation of the Assisted Language Processing & Interpretation News Engine. It is designed to assist in the transformation of quantitative and qualitative data into readable news style copy. It works by interpreting sets of data, and then processes that into human understandable sentences.


The estimated active case rate for each of Alberta Health Zones is based on the population counts provided by Alberta Health on the COVID-19 regional active cases table, and may not match calculations using previous census population counts.