Vaccine distribution is underway in the province with over 333,000 (333,379) doses administered as of March 11th.
Alberta has identified 425 new cases of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours based on over 9,900 (9,913) tests. The provincial test positivity rate is approximately 4.3 per cent.
257 individuals are in hospital including 38 in intensive care units.
2 new deaths have been reported increasing the number of lives lost to the virus in the province during the pandemic to 1,935.
There are 4,546 active cases of COVID-19 in Alberta including 1,661 in the Calgary Zone, 1,155 in the Edmonton Zone and 433 in the Central Zone.
Red Deer County is up by 2 to 23 active cases, while Mountain View County is down by 3 to 20.
The Didsbury/Carstairs/South Mountain View County area has decreased by 3 to 20 active cases.
Rocky Mountain House is up by 2 to 24 active cases of the virus, Sylvan Lake is down by 3 to 13 active cases of COVID-19, while Innisfail is up by 2 to 9.
Olds remains at 13, the Three Hills/Highway 21 area is up by 1 to 4, Crossfield is up by 2 to 4, and Sundre is reporting zero active cases of the virus.
Alberta continues to monitor variant strains of COVID-19 with a total of 784 cases reported as of March 11th including 146 in the Central Zone. 9 new cases of the United Kingdom variant have been confirmed in the last 24 hours.
Over 131,000 (131,081) Albertans have recovered from COVID-19.
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