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Alberta reported 1,351 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday the highest in a single day since New Year’s Eve.
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More-contagious variants of the novel coronavirus are driving the growth in active cases provincewide, as variants now represent 43.2 per cent of Alberta’s 11,464 active cases. Another 575 variant cases were detected Wednesday, raising the number of active variants to nearly 5,000.
About 47 per cent of the province’s total active cases are in the Calgary zone, including 2,220 active variant cases. The region has logged 3,326 total variant cases, the majority of which are the B.1.1.7 strain first identified in the United Kingdom.
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U.K. variant becomes dominant COVID-19 strain in Alberta as province reports 1,429 new cases, a 16-week high Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Photo by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta
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My COVID Story: How have you been impacted by coronavirus?
Postmedia is looking to speak with people who may have been impacted by COVID-19 here in Alberta. Have you undergone a travel-related quarantine? Have you received your vaccine, and if so did you feel any side effects? Have you changed your life for the better because of the pandemic? Send us an email at reply@calgaryherald.com to tell us your experience, or send us a message via this form.
More than 300 Calgary pharmacies offering COVID-19 vaccine Pharmacist Brian Jones with a COVID-19 vaccine at the Evergreen Village Shoppers Drug Mart in Calgary. Photo by Darren Makowichuk/Postmedia
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