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UPDATE: Alberta reports five more deaths due to COVID-19

Last Updated Apr 2, 2020 at 1:03 pm MDT

FILE - This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, green, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID-RML via AP

The Alberta government reported five deaths due to COVID-19.

These are the most deaths reported in a single day since the start of the outbreak in the province.

Dr Deena Hinshaw, chief medical officer of health, said one of the five was a man in his 30s from the North Zone.

There are still only four confirmed cases of the virus in the RMWB.

All four are within the Fort McMurray urban service area.

The deaths bring the total in Alberta to eight with 29 newly confirmed cases.

As of publication, there are 690 confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 in the province of Alberta.

More details to come…