Posted: Dec 17, 2020 12:14 PM MT | Last Updated: December 19, 2020
Tim Huang beside his grandfather-in-law, Bing Kwan, who died of COVID-19.(Submitted by Tim Huang)
An Edmonton couple is grieving the loss of two grandparents to COVID-19 while a third relative battles the virus in hospital.
Tim Huang said his grandmother, Cho-Chih Huang, died of the illness on Dec. 13. She was 99 and lived at the Edmonton Chinese Seniors Lodge. She was taken to the Sturgeon Community Hospital in St. Albert after a fall, he said, and once in hospital tested positive for COVID-19.
Huang said his wife s grandfather, Bing Kwan, also died of the illness this month. He was 101 years old and tested positive for the virus at the Edmonton Chinatown Care Centre, where he died.
Alberta reports deadliest day of pandemic with 22 more deaths
Alberta reported 1,717 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday and performed 21,725 tests in the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of 7.9 per cent.
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Posted: Dec 13, 2020 3:56 PM MT | Last Updated: December 13, 2020
This electron microscope image made available and color-enhanced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md., shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, orange, isolated from a patient. This strain of coronavirus causes COVID-19.(NIAID/National Institutes of Health via The Associated Press)
Alberta reported 22 deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday the most reported in one day since the start of the pandemic.