Alberta has lost its first health-care worker to the COVID-19 pandemic, and on Monday added another 96 deaths to the grim and growing toll. The news came as the province reported a total of more than 5,100 new COVID-19 cases over the previous five days. Shandro offered condolences to the family, friends, loved ones and colleagues of the unidentified health-care worker. "Health-care workers are doing all they can to protect the people they care for, their co-workers, and themselves," Shandro said in his statement. Alberta provincewide: 0.99Edmonton Zone: 0.92Calgary Zone: 1.02Rest of Alberta: 1.06The R-value, also called the reproduction number, is essentially the number of people infected by each infected person.

Source: CBC News January 04, 2021 23:32 UTC