17-04-2020 19:56 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca

Alberta's week in COVID-19 pandemic: Cases surpass 2,000, testing groups expanded and power outage affects virus data

Alberta surpassed 2,000 cases of COVID-19 and reached 50 deaths on Thursday, though the province is still waiting to announce probable cases since Tuesday's data outage. The province's daily totals of confirmed cases have been in the hundreds all week except for Monday, after Alberta Health Services ramped up its testing when it expanded groups to anyone showing symptoms first in the Calgary Zone, and then all across Alberta. Alberta currently sits at 2,158 cases of the novel coronavirus. Howeve
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