Your weekly COVID-19 update
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Your weekly COVID-19 update

Every Tuesday, the Maclean's daily newsletter will catch you up on what you need to know about Canada's fight against the coronavirus. This week, Patricia Treble focuses on one story worth watching, and you can get a sneak peek here. You'll also get the same mix of Maclean's stories you expect every day if you scroll down below.

Alberta’s upward surge in COVID-19 cases and its increasingly serious third wave can be seen simply by looking at the Monday case counts since the Easter long weekend: April 12: 1,136; April 19: 1,391; April 26: 1,495; May 3: 2,012.

The province’s seven-day rolling average of cases hit 440.5 per million population on Monday, setting another record which is also more than double the national rate of 210.3, and well above the second worst province, Ontario, which has a rate of 247.7 per million population.

At the same time, the number of Albertans in ICUs with COVID-19 set another record. It is now above the second wave peak of 153 patients, set at the end of December, according to data from COVID-19 Canada Tracker. And with case counts growing–Alberta has nearly 24,000 active cases and a test positivity of more than 11 per cent—the number of residents requiring critical care medical help is inevitably going to grow, experts say.

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