New cases and positive test percentage hit concerning high marks for COVID-19 in Saskatchewan Friday.
For the first time May 14, there were more than 200 new cases of the novel coronavirus recorded while the percentage of positive tests in the province was over 10 per cent for the first time since February 4. Friday’s dashboard reading from the Government of Saskatchewan website showed 244 new cases of COVID-19, from 2,320 tests for a 10.5 per cent positive rate. There were 66 recoveries, upping the active case count for the virus in the province to 1,381. From that number, there are 84 hospitalised patients, down two from Thursday, with 15 infections being treated in an I-C-U. There were no new deaths while 991 people became fully immunised Thursday out of 1,543 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered.
Highlights
- As of August 20th, there are 244 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 52,065 reported cases
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (9), Far North Central (1), Far North East (19), North West (11), North Central (24), North East (34), Saskatoon (52), Central West (6), Central East (9), Regina (35), South West (3), South Central (16), and South East (13) zones, and 12 new cases are pending residence information
- One (1) case with pending residence information was assigned to the North Central zone (from August 18 (1))
- Two (2) SK residents tested out-of-province have been added to the case counts in the Saskatoon zone (from August 16 (2))
- Two (2) cases have been deemed to be a non-SK resident and removed from the Far North East zone (from August 16 (1)) and one (1) has pending residence information (from August 18)
- 52,065 cases are confirmed
- 12,369 cases are from the Regina area
- 12,250 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 11,468 cases are from the North area (4,896 North West, 4,822 North Central, 1,750 North East)
- 6,207 cases are from the South area (1,231 South West, 2,015 South Central, 2,961 South East)
- 6,198 cases are from the Far North area (3,091 Far North West, 456 Far North Central, 2,651 Far North East)
- 3,403 cases are from the Central area (876 Central West, 2,527 Central East)
- 170 cases have pending residence information
- 1,381 cases are considered active and 50,098 cases are considered recovered
- Less than one-half (40.6%) of new cases are in the 20 to 39 years age category
- As of August 20th, a total of 84 individuals are hospitalized, including 69 inpatient hospitalizations and 15 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 84 patients, 61 (73%) are not fully vaccinated.
- No (0) new death reported today. 586 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died, with a case fatality rate of 1.1%
- 995,362 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of August 18, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 838,331 tests performed per million. The national rate was 1,043,374 tests performed per million.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case number was 146 (12.1 new cases per 100,000)
