COVID-19 transmission in Alberta starting to slow, health minister says – CBC
62 new deaths were reported Wednesday
Apr 27, 2022
COVID-19 data in Alberta suggests that the current surge of transmission, driven by the Omicron subvariant BA.2, may be starting to plateau, Health Minister Jason Copping said Wednesday.
The average positivity rate in the province for lab-confirmed PCR tests over the past week was about 25.7 per cent, which is lower than most of the past month, Copping told a news conference Wednesday.
Wastewater COVID-19 levels are high in many parts of the province, but in some places — like Red Deer, Edmonton, Canmore and Grande Prairie — levels are plateauing or dropping.
Edmonton, in particular, has seen a quick drop in levels of the virus picked up in wastewater testing. Copping cautioned that it’s too early to say if this will be a sustained trend.
“Even if transmission is slowing as it appears to be, hospital admissions will continue to rise for a few weeks,” Copping said.
