Although new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan were less than 300 Thursday for the first time in a week, the number of active cases of the novel coronavirus in the province went over 3,400. Thursday’s updated dashboard on the Saskatchewan Government website showed 286 new cases of COVID-19. Coupled with 192 recoveries and one virus-related fatality, that left 3,416 active cases in the province. From that number, hospitalized cases rose by three from Wednesday to 184, including 32 infections being treated in an I-C-U. The seven-day average for new cases nudged up to 364 while there were 393 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered on Wednesday, 201 of those shots made recipients fully vaccinated.
Highlights
- As of September 9th, there are 286 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 57,521 reported cases
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (7), Far North Central (4), Far North East (25), North West (19), North Central (46), North East (7), Saskatoon (65), Central West (5), Central East (5), Regina (12), South West (11), South Central (6) and South East (25) zones and 49 new cases have pending residence information
- Eleven (11) cases with pending location were assigned to the North West (from Sept 7 (1)), North Central (from Sept 3 (1), Sept 7 (5)), Saskatoon (from Sept 7 (2)), Central East (from Sept 5 (1)), and Regina (from Sept 6 (1)) zones
- Eight (8) cases were deemed an out-of-province residents and removed from Far North West (from Sept 7 (1)), and pending locations (from August 18 (1), August 19 (1), August 20 (1), August 21 (3) and August 24 (1))
- 57,521 cases are confirmed
- 13,888 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 13,305 cases are from the North area (5,562 North West, 5,710 North Central, 2,033 North East)
- 12,622 cases are from the Regina area
- 7,103 cases are from the Far North area (3,373 Far North West, 506 Far North Central, 3,224 Far North East)
- 6,564 cases are from the South area (1,335 South West, 2,091 South Central, 3,138 South East)
- 3,695 cases are from the Central area (1008 Central West, 2,687 Central East)
- 344 cases have pending residence information
- 3,416 cases are considered active and 53,489 cases are considered recovered
- Over one-third (35.0%) of new cases are in the 20 to 39 year age category
- Over one in eight (9.4%) new cases was fully vaccinated
- As of September 9th, a total of 184 individuals are hospitalized, including 152 inpatient hospitalizations and 32 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 184 patients, 141 (76.5%) were not fully vaccinated
- One (1) new death reported today. 616 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died, with a case fatality rate of 1.1%.
- 1,052,108 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of September 7, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 886,050 tests performed per million. The national rate was 1,082,775 tests performed per million.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 364 (30.2 new cases per 100,000).
