Alberta reported 277 new cases of COVID-19 Friday, helping to push the number of active cases in the Edmonton zone to another record total for the third straight day. Edmonton's surging case numbers are worrying enough that health officials are urging residents to reduce their number of contacts. Alberta now has 2,225 active cases with 86 people in hospital, nine more than Thursday, with 11 of those patients in intensive care. While one additional death was reported, two deaths previously reported as COVID-19-related have been determined not to have been so and removed from the total death count, leaving it at 282. Finally, she asked people living in the Edmonton zone to limit the number of their cohorts groups to three — such as family, school and a sport or social group.

Source: CBC News October 09, 2020 22:21 UTC