COVID-19 cases among school-aged kids in Alberta are at their highest level on record
Cases of COVID-19 have been rising among school-aged kids and teens in Alberta over the past week, but so too has the number of young people being tested.
Testing also higher than prior to September but positivity rates shot up in past week
Alberta has never recorded more cases of COVID-19 among school-aged kids and teens than it did over the past week.
Data from Alberta Health shows the number of new daily cases has continued to rise among five- to nine-year-olds and has shot up, especially, among 10- to 19-year-olds.
In-person classes resumed at many schools in Alberta on Sept. 1 and for several weeks the number of new daily cases had been on the decline.
That changed during the last week in September, when cases start to rise.
In early October, that trend has continued, with an average of 45 cases per day among school-aged kids and teens over the past week on record.