Over 18,000 doses of COVID-19 were administered on Friday for a total in Saskatchewan at 878,665. The province is reporting 106 new cases, 135 recoveries and one person who tested positive for the virus has died.  The individual was in the eighty and over age group and was from the Northwest zone.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 47,875 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan and right now, 874 cases are considered active. There are 96 people in the hospital including 17 in intensive care.

The province says more Moderna deliveries are expected so the second dose schedules will be updated Mondays and Thursdays each week until all remaining populations are eligible, depending on vaccine availability.

Vaccines Reported

An additional 18,014 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 878,665.

The 18,014 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered to residents living in the following zones: Far North West, 277; Far North Central, 31; Far North East, 409; North West, 1,094; North Central, 1,323; North East, 483; Saskatoon, 5,063 Central West, 626; Central East, 1,544; Regina, 3,994; South West, 994; South Central, 1,014; and South East, 790.  There were 372 doses administered with zone of residence pending.

Seventy-nine per cent of those over the age of 40 have received their first dose.  Seventy-three per cent of those 30+ have received their first dose.  Sixty-eight per cent of those 18+ have received their first dose, while sixty-six per cent of those 12+ have also received their first dose.

Note: Age is calculated on the date of the most recent dose.  Someone age 69 at their first dose and 70 at their second will now be counted in the 70-79 group for both doses, resulting in a decrease in the 60-69 first dose number.

All vaccine administration details for the province, including first and second doses, can be found at https://dashboard.saskatchewan.ca/health-wellness.

Saskatchewan has been allocated 89,880 Moderna doses for the week of June 14 and 130,620 Moderna doses for the week of June 21.

Daily COVID-19 Statistics

There are 106 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on June 12, bringing the provincial total to 47,875 cases.

The new cases are located in the following zones: Far North West, 3; Far North East, 1; North West, 19; North Central, 17; North East, 2; Saskatoon, 29; Central West, 5; Central East, 3; Regina,10; South West, 3; South Central, 8; and South East, 4.  Two cases are pending residence information.

Five cases tested out of province were added: Far North East, 4; and one case with pending resident information.

One new death is being reported today in the 80+ age group from the North West zone.

Recoveries total 46,446 and 874 cases are considered active.

There are 96 people in hospital. Seventy-nine people are receiving inpatient care: North West, 12; North Central, 5; Saskatoon, 29; Central East, 3; Regina, 26; South West, 1; South Central, 2; and South East; 2.  Seventeen people are in intensive care: North West, 1; North Central, 4; Saskatoon, 5; Central East, 1; Regina, 5; and South West, 1.  The Manitoba resident receiving COVID-19 care in Saskatchewan was repatriated June 11.

The seven-day average of new COVID-19 case number is 79 (6.5 per 100,000).  A chart comparing today’s average to data collected over the past few months is available at https://dashboard.saskatchewan.ca/health-wellness/covid-19/seven-day-average-of-new-covid-cases.

There were 2,159 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on June 11, 2021.

To date, 886,468 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan.  As of June 10, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 746,075 tests performed per million population.  The national rate was 936,237.

The Ministry of Health is now reporting COVID-19 variants of concern according to the latest designations approved by the World Health Organization and aligns with the designations being used by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

As of June 11, 11,664 variants of concern have been identified by screening in Saskatchewan, reported in the following zones: Far North West, 283; Far North Central, 1; Far North East, 78; North West, 741; North Central, 585; North East, 77; Saskatoon, 2,003; Central West, 121; Central East, 626; Regina, 4,731; South West, 393; South Central, 850; and South East, 1,108.  There are 67 screened VOCs with residence pending.

No new lineage results were reported for Variants of Concern today.  Of the 6,199 VOCs with lineages identified by whole genome sequencing in Saskatchewan, 5,932 are Alpha (B.1.1.7), 208 are Gamma (P.1), 49 are Delta (B.1.617.2) and 10 are Beta (B.1.351).

Confirmed variant of concern cases may appear in both columns on the website, depending on testing for that case.  Adding the cases identified by screening and those that have received whole genome sequencing may result in double-counting individual cases.

Further statistics on the total number of cases among health care workers, breakdowns of total cases by source of infection, age, sex and region, total tests to date, per capita testing rate and current numbers of confirmed variants of concern can be found at http://www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-cases.

It may not be allergies or a spring cold.  Get tested for COVID-19.

Fever? Cough and headache? Fatigued or experiencing shortness of breath?  Do not “tough it out” or assume it’s spring allergies.  Stay home and seek a COVID-19 test.  Testing remains one of the most important tools to limiting the spread of COVID-19 in your community.  Even if you have been recently vaccinated, it can take up to three weeks for your immune system to respond.  Vaccines are not a cure preventing all possible transmission and you remain at risk of contracting COVID-19 during that time.

COVID-19 testing is available to all residents.  You can still receive a referral for COVID-19 testing through HealthLine 811 or a health care provider, and drive-thru testing sites are available without a referral seven days a week in Regina, Saskatoon, Yorkton and Prince Albert.  Information on symptoms to watch for and how to get tested is available at www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-testing.