Alberta COVID-19 active cases and hospitalizations trending down, changes to rapid test program

Alberta's health minister said the province is seeing the number of active cases decreasing and the amount of people being admitted to hospital for COVID-19 treatment. On Thursday, the province reported 1,363 new confirmed infections of the disease after completing just under 5,000 tests. There are now 25,339 confirmed active cases, representing a decline by almost two-thirds from January's peak of 71,600 cases. That gives Alberta a positivity rate of about 29.3 per cent, based only on PCR confi