Hinshaw said there have been a total of 42 cases identified at 35 schools while infectious. She said none of the cases have been shown to be spread through attendance at school.
Hinshaw also announced two outbreaks at schools in the Calgary Zone Monday.
Alberta Education deputy minister Andre Corbould said there are currently 2,380 schools that are open and have no cases.
Alberta Teachers’ Association spokesman Jonathan Teghtmeyer said teachers want schools to open but need supports to make sure that happens.
“As long as the number of community cases remains high, cases will continue to arrive on the front doors of schools. The challenge really then is schools, school divisions, the government and everybody involved in the education sector to prevent the potential for those individual cases to result in a spread at the school site,” he said.
Hinshaw announced there were 105 cases identified across the province last Friday, 173 on Saturday and 140 on Sunday. Over that same time period there were 46,127 completed tests.
The active number of cases in the province sits at 1,538. The Edmonton Zone currently has the most at 654 active cases.
There have been 15,833 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Alberta since the beginning of the pandemic and 14,041 people have recovered. There are 37 people in hospital with COVID-19, seven of whom are in intensive care.
Hinshaw announced one additional COVID-19 related death over the weekend, a woman in her 70s in the Edmonton Zone, bringing the total deaths to 254.
Across the country there are 7,057 active cases, according to numbers from Health Canada. Globally there have been 28,918,900 confirmed cases and 922,252 deaths, reports the World Health Organization.
— With files from Jeff Labine
Source:- Edmonton Journal
