The daily number of new cases of COVID-19 and the positive test rate were, both, the lowest in Saskatchewan since September 11, according to Tuesday’s look at the dashboard on the provincial government website.
However, there were five new novel coronavirus-related deaths to bring Saskatchewan’s total number of fatalities to 646. The latest update showed 372 new cases from 3,741 COVID-19 tests. Coupled with 336 recoveries and the province’s active case count is at 4,700.
However, hospitalizations went up by nine from Monday to another pandemic-high of 262, including 54 viruses being treated in an I-C-U. Just 840 doses of vaccine were administered Monday with half of those shots making the recipient fully vaccinated.
Highlights
- As of September 21st, there are 372 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 62,989 reported cases.
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (9), Far North Central (3), Far North East (41), North West (42), North Central (46), North East (11), Saskatoon (50), Central West (13), Central East (17), Regina (49), South West (14), South Central (14) and South East (18) zones and forty-five (45) new cases have pending residence information.
- Twenty (20) cases with pending residence information were reassigned to Far North West (from September 18 (1), September 19 (1)), North West (from September 16 (1), September 19 (3)), North East (from September 19 (2)), Central East (from September 18 (1)), Saskatoon (from September 18 (2)), South Central (from September 19 (9)) zones.
- Three (3) cases were removed; one (1) was removed from the North West zone from September 19, and two (2) cases were determined to be non-SK residents and removed from cases pending residence information from August 27 and August 29.
- 62,989 cases are confirmed
- 15,198 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 15,123 cases are from the North area (6,352 North West, 6,427 North Central, 2,344 North East)
- 13,103 cases are from the Regina area
- 7,802 cases are from the Far North area (3,634 Far North West, 525 Far North Central, 3,643 Far North East)
- 7,218 cases are from the South area (1,502 South West, 2,289 South Central, 3,427 South East)
- 4,065 cases are from the Central area (1,127 Central West, 2,938 Central East)
- 480 cases have pending residence information
- 4,700 cases are considered active and 57,643 cases are considered recovered.
- Over one-fourth (29.8%) of new cases are in the age category of 20-39.
- Approximately one in five (19.5%) of new cases eligible for vaccination (aged 12 years and older) were fully vaccinated.
- As of September 21st, a total of 262 individuals are hospitalized; including 208 inpatient hospitalizations and 54 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 262 patients, 193 (73.7%) were not fully vaccinated.
- Five (5) new deaths reported today. 646 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died with a case fatality rate of 1.0%
- A total of 55,738 individuals are resolved cases (88.5%). There are 448 new resolved cases located in the Far North West (21), Far North Central (1), Far North East (20), North West (19), North Central (56), North East (9), Saskatoon (211), Central West (1), Central East (19), Regina (41), South West (7), South Central (19) and South East (24) zones.
- 1,098,415 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of September 19th, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 924,556 tests performed per million. The national rate was 1,112,669 tests performed per million.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 474 (39.4 new cases per 100,000).
