There are 181 new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan on Tuesday and three more deaths. All three people who died were in their 80’s with two from Regina and one from the North West zone.

Of the 13,942 cases to date, 3,945 are considered active. One hundred and twenty-four people are in hospital and of those 21 people are in intensive care.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority says anyone getting tested for COVID-19 should expect it will be seven days before the test result is available. The SHA says unfortunately due to the large volume of tests, they have fallen behind. The health authority also says it is working hard to meet their targets.
Yesterday, 2,172 COVID-19 tests were processed in Saskatchewan.

The new cases are located in the Far North West (8), Far North Central (2), Far North East (14), North West (35), North Central (36), North East (3), Saskatoon (35), Central West (1), Central East (3), Regina (43) and South West (1) zones.

The total vaccinations completed to December 21 is 1,519. These are part of the Regina pilot vaccination phase.

Another shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has arrived and now it is Saskatoon’s turn. The Saskatchewan Health Authority says the plan is to administer some of its first health care worker vaccinations in Saskatoon starting at 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Of the 13,942 cases in the province:

• 595 cases are travelers;
• 6,695 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 3,153 have no known exposures; and
• 3,499 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan to date:

• 589 cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
• 3,006 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 4,939 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 3,591 are in the 40-59 age range; 1,806 are in the 60-79 age range; and 595 are in the 80-plus range. Confirmation of age is pending for five cases.
• 50.5 per cent of the cases are female and 49.5 per cent are male.
• 125 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

Of 13,942 confirmed cases:

• 4,035 cases are from the Saskatoon area
• 3,262 cases are from the north area (1,282 north west, 1,522 north central, 458 north east)
• 2,739 cases are from the Regina area
• 1,504 cases are from the south area (551 south west, 525 south central, 428 south east)
• 1,497 cases are from the far north area (843 far north west, 106 far north central, 548 far north east)
• 871 cases are from the central area (331 central west, 540 central east)
• 34 cases have pending residence information

To date, 410,616 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of December 20, 2020 when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 250,250 people tested per million population. The national rate was 350,871 people tested per million population.