Eight people are reported as having died according to Monday’s update from the Ministry of Health. One of the fatalities because of the novel coronavirus is a person in their 30s from Regina. Another person from Regina to pass was in their 60s, as was a person from the South Central. The North Central zone had a person in their 50s die because of the virus while the remaining four deaths were people in their 80s…one from each of the Far North West, North West, Central East and South East zones.

       Monday’s update had 412 new cases of COVID-19, the third-highest single day amount since the pandemic was declared, for a provincial total of 18,522.  Add in 162 new recoveries and the active case count for the virus in Saskatchewan is up to 3,735. Of those active cases, 197 people are in hospital…31 of those individuals in an I-C-U. There were over a thousand new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan in three days.

       As for vaccinations, over one-thousand doses were administered between Sunday’s and Monday’s update. In addition, the province is expecting 6,825 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 5,400 doses of the Moderna vaccine to arrive this week.

As of January 11, a total of 8,948 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Saskatchewan.

Eight hundred and thirty-three of these doses were administered January 10 in Regina (222), Saskatoon (54), Prince Albert (117), the Far North East (234) and North East (206) zones.

This brings the totals to 2,069 doses and 1,230 second doses of Pfizer in the Regina pilot program; 2,847 Pfizer doses in Saskatoon; 613 Pfizer doses in Prince Albert; 596 Moderna doses in the Far North West zone; 134 Moderna doses in the Far North Central zone; 1,071 Moderna doses in the Far North East zone; and 388 Moderna doses in the North East zone.  Note that some vaccinations taking place Sunday in the province’s north may not have been reported yet.

The 412 new cases are located in the Far North West (33), Far North Central (9), Far North East (80), North West (102), North Central (95), North East (48), Saskatoon (142), Central West (4), Central East (23), Regina (88), South West (1), South Central (12) and South East (47) zones and 35 new cases have pending residence information.

Twenty-one cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far North West (4); Far North East (4); North West (1); North Central (8); North East (1); Saskatoon (2) and Regina (1) zones.

A total of 14,588 individuals have recovered.

One hundred and sixty-six people are receiving inpatient hospital care: Far North West (1), Far North Central (1), North West (10), North Central (33), North East (11), Saskatoon (46), Central East (9), Regina (44), South Central (1) and South East (10). Thirty-one people are in intensive care: North West (1), North Central (5), Saskatoon (13), Central East (1), and Regina (11).

There were 3,222 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on January 9, 2021 and 2,611 on January 10, 2021.

To date, 454,050 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan.  As of January 9, 2021 when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 266,659 people tested per million population.  The national rate was 387,986 people tested per million population.

Daily COVID-19 Statistics

Further statistics on the total number of cases among healthcare workers, breakdowns of total cases by source of infection, age, sex and region, total tests to date and the per capita testing rate can be found on the Government of Saskatchewan website.  Please visit www.saskatchewan.ca/government/health-care-administration-and-provider-resources/treatment-procedures-and-guidelines/emerging-public-health-issues/2019-novel-coronavirus/cases-and-risk-of-covid-19-in-saskatchewan.

The seven-day average of daily new cases is 307 (25.4 new cases per 100,000 population) and is now available on the Government of Saskatchewan website. This chart compares today’s average to data collected over the past several months.  Please note that Saturday’s seven-day average of daily new cases was corrected to be 279 (23.1 new cases per 100,000 population).  Please visit https://dashboard.saskatchewan.ca/health-wellness/covid-19/seven-day-average-of-new-covid-cases.