The coronavirus has reached Fort Saskatchewan.

On Thursday (Apr.2) the province confirmed Fort Saskatchewan has its first case of COVID-19. No further details were provided.

Strathcona County and Sherwood Park have a combined 21 cases and Sturgeon County west has six.

Lamont County and Sturgeon County east still have no confirmed cases.

Chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw provided a provincial update of 96 new cases, bringing the total up to 968. Of those, 174 are confirmed to have recovered.

Alberta Health Services believes up to 108 of the cases may have been cause by community spread.

There were also two more confirmed deaths due to the virus, a man in his 90s from the Calgary zone and a man in his 80s from the north zone. The province has 13 deaths total.

"If you are feeling ill in any way, stay home," stressed Hinshaw.

Over 4,000 tests have been done in Alberta over the last 24 hours, with 98 per cent of tests coming back negative.

Hinshaw expects by the end of the day, there will be over 1-million cases worldwide. In Canada, there have been 10,132 confirmed cases so far.