For an eighth consecutive day, there were more than 50 new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan.
In fact, the 90 new cases shown in Wednesday’s provincial government dashboard was the second highest number in the eight-day span, boosting the seven-day average for new cases to 81. Coupled with 44 recoveries and Saskatchewan’s active cases of the novel coronavirus rose to 682. From that number, 65 people are in hospital because of COVID-19 with 15 of those infections being treated in an I-C-U. There were no new deaths due to the virus in the province, leaving the total COVID-19-related fatalities at 584. There were 1,912 doses of vaccine administered on Tuesday, 1,370 of which were to individuals who are now fully vaccinated.
Highlights
- As of August 11th, there are 90 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 50,771 reported cases
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (1), Far North Central (3), Far North East (24), North West (4), North Central (7), North East (4), Saskatoon (22), Central West (2), Central East (3), Regina (5), South West (4), South Central (2) and South East (5) zones, and four (4) new cases are pending residence information
- Two (2) SK residents tested out-of-province were added to the Saskatoon (from August 5 (1)) and Central East (August 2 (1)) zones
- Six (6) cases with pending residence information were assigned to the North West zone (from March 23 (1), March 24 (1), April 16 (1), April 23 (1), May 2 (1), June 3 (1))
- 50,771 cases are confirmed
- 12,278 cases are from the Regina area
- 11,964 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 11,113 cases are from the North area (4,820 North West, 4,657 North Central, 1,636 North East)
- 6,005 cases are from the South area (1,177 South West, 1,949 South Central, 2,879 South East)
- 5,940 cases are from the Far North area (2,986 Far North West, 436 Far North Central, 2,518 Far North East)
- 3,316 cases are from the Central area (857 Central West, 2,459 Central East)
- 155 cases have pending residence information
- 682 cases are considered active and 49,505 cases are considered recovered
- Almost one-third (31.1%) of new cases are in both the 19 and under and 20 to 39 years age category
- As of August 11th, a total of 65 individuals are hospitalized, including 50 inpatient hospitalizations and 15 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 65 patients, 45 (69%) are not fully vaccinated.
- No (0) new deaths reported today. 584 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died, with a case fatality rate of 1.2%
- 978,122 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of August 9, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 824,092 tests performed per million. The national rate of 1,028,018 tests performed per million.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case number was 81 (6.7 new cases per 100,000)
