Students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 returned to classrooms on Tuesday, May 25 after schools across the province closed nearly three weeks earlier.
Since the province moved to regional enhanced restrictions on areas with higher than 30 active cases and case rates more than 50 per 100,000 population, the number of daily new cases has continued to decline.
Along with declining cases, there has also been increased vaccine delivery. More than 2.5 million doses of vaccine have been delivered across the province, with 48.2 per cent of Albertans having received at least one dose of the vaccine as of Saturday, May 22; nearly 8 per cent of Albertans have been fully vaccinated.
According to a new vaccine geographical map, available on the Alberta COVID website, 47.8 per cent, or 5,666 residents in the Starland County, Drumheller area have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
There was no regular COVID update given Monday by the Alberta government due to the Victoria Day long weekend.
As of Monday, May 24, there are eight active cases and 457 recovered cases reported for the Town of Drumheller, including 181 recovered cases at the Drumheller Institution. The outbreak at the Drumheller Institution, which has been ongoing since December 2020, was ended as of Monday, May 24.
In the surrounding areas there are zero active cases in Starland County, 11 active cases in Wheatland County, and 24 active cases in Kneehill County.
