There are 98 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Friday, with 95 new recoveries the active case count is now at 763.  A person in their 70’s, from the North West zone who tested positive for COVID-19, has died.

81 people remain in hospital with 10 in intensive care.

As of end of day Thursday, there were an additional 24,260 vaccinations administered. This represents two days of vaccine administration (Wednesday, June 16 and Thursday, June 17). 961,997 vaccines have been administered in the province.

The new cases are located in the following zones: Far North West, 1; North West, 9; North Central, 19; North East, 2; Saskatoon, 12; Central West, 8; Central East, 8; Regina, 25; South Central, 4; and South East, 4. Six cases are pending residence information.

Two cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far North West, 1; and Far North East, 1; zones. Nine cases tested out-of-province were added to the Far North East, 3; North West, 1; Saskatoon, 1; Central East, 1; and Regina, 3.

There are 81 people in hospital. Seventy-one people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West, 1; North West, 10; North Central, 8; Saskatoon, 26; Central East, 2; Regina, 20; and South Central, 4. Ten people are in intensive care: North Central, 1; Saskatoon, 6; and Regina, 3.

The seven-day average of new COVID-19 case number is 78 (6.4 per 100,000).

Vaccine reporting numbers have routinely been reported over a 48-hour period in order to ensure complete vaccine administration data/information and therefore represents vaccinations from two days previous.  The vaccine administration reporting timeline was adjusted to a 24-hour period for a short term in order to provide the most up-to-date information to support a decision on the ability to move to Step 3 of the Re-Open Roadmap. Vaccination numbers on Saturday, June 19 will represent vaccine administration from Friday, June 18. Vaccination numbers on Sunday will provide results from Saturday, June 19.

The additional 24,260 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered to residents living in the following zones: Far North West, 182; Far North Central, 3; Far North East, 421; North West, 1,821; North Central, 1,921; North East, 809; Saskatoon, 5,106; Central West, 638; Central East, 2,123; Regina, 7,296; South West, 612; South Central, 1,100; and South East, 1,475. There were 753 doses administered with zone of residence pending.