The province’s pandemic death toll reached 5,470 in the past week after 27 more Albertans had their deaths attributed to COVID.
The seven-day average positivity rate on PCR tests, which have been restricted to people with clinical risks or who live and/or work in high risk settings for the past year, declined to 13.28 per cent, a 1.8 point drop.
BA.5 and sublineages, which have been dominant in Alberta since Canada Day 2022, dipped below 70 per cent of PCR tests on Jan.