Toronto 
Credit: Govt. of Alberta
Alberta Health is asking those in the Edmonton Health zone to follow three new “voluntary” public health measures to limit the rapid rise of active COVID-19 cases in the region. Alberta Health says additional measures may be recommended if needed.
Alberta Health says starting today (October 8) all residents and visitors to the region should:
- Keep your family and social gatherings to 15 people.
- Wear a mask in all indoor work settings, unless you are safely distanced from others.
- Limit your cohorts to no more than 3:
- Household cohort
- School Cohort
- One other sport or social cohort.
Edmonton AHS Zone includes:
- Beaumont
- Devon
- Edmonton
- Evansburg
- Fort Saskatchewan
- Gibbons
- Leduc
- Morinville
- Sherwood Park
- Spruce Grove
- St. Albert
- Stony Plain
- Thorsby
- Surrounding villages and businesses
As of October 8th, there are 1,251 active cases in the Edmonton zone.
- There are currently 2,097 active cases in the province.
- Total recovered cases are 17,338.
- In the past 24 hours, 364 new cases were identified and 16,408 tests were completed.
- Alberta labs have now performed 1,472,658 tests on
1,095,515 Albertans. - There were two additional deaths reported.
- There are currently 371 confirmed cases in 170 schools.
- Of those, 98 schools are on alert, with 131 total cases.
- Outbreaks are declared in 72 schools, including 14 that are on watch. There are 240 total cases linked to these schools.
- A total of 55 schools have now been removed from the alert list, including five since Oct. 7.
- As of today, all zones across the province have cases:
- Calgary zone: 604 active cases and 8,567 recovered
- South zone: 92 active cases and 1,795 recovered
- Edmonton zone: 1,251 active cases and 4,906 recovered
- North zone: 97 active cases and 1,374 recovered
- Central zone: 39 active cases and 660 recovered
- 14 active cases and 36 recovered cases in zones to be confirmed
- There are 109 active cases and 1,158 recovered cases at continuing care facilities; 173 facility residents have died.
