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A 14th resident at the Intercare Brentwood Care Centre in Calgary has died from COVID-19 as the outbreak continues to spread at the facility, according to Alberta Health.
Intercare Brentwood has the second-most deaths among Alberta outbreaks, following McKenzie Towne Continuing Care Centre, which recorded 21 deaths. According to an Intercare update, only one of the facility’s six units remains free of a COVID-19 outbreak.
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Alberta Health Services has recorded 72 total cases at the Intercare centre, with 16 active cases and 42 recoveries among residents and staff.
The resident whose death was reported Monday was a woman in her 70s and is the 94th resident of a continuing-care facility in the province to have died from COVID-19. Alberta Health said there are currently 93 active cases at continuing-care facilities, with 596 people confirmed to have recovered.
More widely, AHS has confirmed 6,683 cases of COVID-19 in the province since the first case in early March. Of those cases, there have been 5,519 recoveries and 128 deaths, which means there are currently 1,036 active cases.
