For the first time since July 26, there has been a COVID-19-related death in Saskatchewan.
There are no further details from the provincial government website as to how old or which zone the fatality came from, but Saskatchewan has now had 579 deaths due to the novel coronavirus since the pandemic was declared. Otherwise, 11 zones reported a total of 60 new cases of COVID-19 in the province Wednesday, including 14 from the Far North West zone and 13 from Saskatoon. There were just 26 recoveries, leaving 483 active cases of the virus in Saskatchewan. From that number, 56 people are in hospital with 12 infections receiving treatment in an I-C-U. In addition, 769 provincial residents became fully vaccinated on Tuesday out of a total of 1,057 doses administered.
Highlights
- As of August 4th, there are 60 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 50,181 reported cases
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (14), Far North Central (2), Far North East (6), North West (2), North Central (5), Saskatoon (13), Central West (1), Central East (3), Regina (1), South West (3) and South East (6) zones, and four (4) new cases have pending residence information
- One (1) SK resident tested out-of-province was added to the South Central (from August 1 (1)) zone
- 50,181 cases are confirmed
- 12,239 cases are from the Regina area
- 11,805 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 11,001 cases are from the North area (4,783 North West, 4,599 North Central, 1,619 North East)
- 5,892 cases are from the South area (1,152 South West, 1,929 South Central, 2,811 South East)
- 5,810 cases are from the Far North area (2,936 Far North West, 415 Far North Central, 2,459 Far North East)
- 3,280 cases are from the Central area (840 Central West, 2,440 Central East)
- 154 cases have pending residence information
- 483 are considered active cases and 49,119 are considered recovered
- 12,962 of the cases are individuals in the 19 and under age category; all others are adults, with 50.1% of the cases males and 49.6% females
- 4% (1,886) of cases are travel-related, 61% (30,718) are contacts to known cases or involved in mass gathering(s), 27% (13,399) have no known exposures and 8% (4,178) are under investigation by local public health
- 2,563 cases are healthcare workers, although the source of their infections may not be health care related
- As of August 4th, a total of 56 individuals are hospitalized, including 44 inpatient hospitalizations and 12 ICU hospitalizations.
- One (1) new death reported today. 579 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died, with a case fatality rate of 1.2%.
- 966,800 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of August 2, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 814,898 tests performed per million. The national rate was 1,017,025 tests performed per million.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 50 (4.1 per 100,000).
