Alberta recorded 418 new cases of COVID-19 and one additional death due to the disease over three days this past weekend.

The province’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw said Monday that Alberta recorded 105 new cases on Friday, 173 new cases on Saturday and 140 new cases on Sunday.

Hinshaw noted that Alberta set a provincial record for the number of coronavirus tests completed on Saturday, with 18,919.

There was one death due to COVID-19 reported over the weekend: a woman in her 70s from the Edmonton zone who Alberta Health said was not in continuing care.

As of Monday, 15,833 cases of COVID-19 and 254 deaths related to the disease have been identified in Alberta since the beginning of the pandemic.

There were 1,538 active cases of COVID-19 in Alberta on Monday. Of those, 654 are in the Edmonton zone, 557 are in the Calgary zone, 232 are in the North zone, 49 are in the Central zone, 38 are in the South zone and eight are not tied to any specific zone.

Additionally, a second school in Calgary’s public school board has now declared a COVID-19 outbreak. Auburn Bay School in southeast Calgary is confirming two or more positive cases at the elementary school.

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