There are currently 117 Albertans in hospital, 18 in ICU. There have been 292 deaths, an increase of four from Friday.

The province conducted 58,183 tests in the past 72 hours 16,021 on Oct. 16, 12,556 on Oct. 17 and 13,578 on Oct. 18.

Brooks has six new cases since Friday and now has 14 active cases.

With a rate of more than 50 active cases per 100,000 people, Brooks is now on the provincial Watch list; Brooks rate is 72.6 The city was a hotspot of COVID-19 cases early in the pandemic but had kept active cases below five for the past few months.

Lethbridge and Lethbridge County are also both on the Watch list at 135 and 99.1, respectively.

The city and county have seven outbreaks between them and with case counts rising in recent weeks.

On Tuesday there are 97 schools in the province where outbreaks have been declared. Alberta Healths threshold for declaring an outbreak in school is two cases being in a school while infectious within 14 days.

No local schools are classified as having outbreaks on the provincial website.

The website Support Our Students is tracking instances of cases in schools across the province. Elm Street School and Herald School were added to the list on Oct. 5, and Ecole St. John Paul II has been on it since late August.

There 2,102 cases in the South Zone There are 191 active cases and 1,884 recovered. There are currently four COVID-19 cases in hospital in the South Zone, two in the ICU. A death in Lethbridge County brings the zone death total to 27.

Cypress County has totaled 34 cases one new active case and the rest recovered.

The County of Forty Mile has 43 total cases. There are three active cases and the rest are recovered.

The MD of Taber has 45 total cases one new active and the rest recovered.

Special Areas No. 2 has 17 total cases, two active cases and the rest recovered.

Brooks has 1,145 total cases 14 active and 1,122 are recovered. Brooks has recorded nine deaths.

The County of Newell has a total of 37 cases four active cases, 31 recovered and there have been two deaths.

The County of Warner has 65 total cases. There are two active cases, 62 are recovered cases and there has been one death in the county.

The City of Lethbridge has a total of 350 cases. There are 134 active cases, 214 recovered and there have been two deaths. Lethbridge County has 112 cases, 25 active cases, 86 recovered and there has been one death.

The figures on alberta.ca are up-to-date as of end of day Oct. 18, 2020.

Saskatchewan reported 126 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend, three in the South Zones.

Saskatchewan has a total of 2,396 cases, 398 considered active. There are 1,973 recovered cases and there have been 25 COVID-19 deaths in the province.

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