Alberta is seeing its highest number of daily cases of COVID-19 in months, with an estimated 1,100 new infections reported Friday. It is the most new cases seen in a single day since the first week of January. On Thursday, Premier Jason Kenney said the province is seeing a new wave of COVID-19 infections and it's up to Albertans to comply with health restrictions to bring cases down. Provincial labs completed about 13,300 tests tests for the virus on Thursday, with a positivity rate of eight per cent. As of Thursday, the province had seen 1,994 deaths from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.

Source: CBC News April 02, 2021 22:04 UTC