Daily new cases of COVID-19 went back over 400 in Wednesday’s dashboard reading from the Government of Saskatchewan website, which also showed five more novel coronavirus-related deaths. There are 265 hospitalized individuals, up three from Tuesday’s update, including 54 infections being treated in an I-C-U.
Following Tuesday’s 10-day low of 372 cases, the province had 426 new cases Wednesday. From that number, 107 cases were contracted by children under 12 years of age who are ineligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
There were 415 recoveries, meaning the active number of cases in Saskatchewan went up by just six to 4,706. There were also 3,722 doses of vaccine administered in the province on Tuesday, along with 3,559 tests for the virus.
Highlights
- As of September 22nd, there are 426 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 63,415 reported cases.
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (15), Far North East (22), North West (60), North Central (29), North East (7), Saskatoon (91), Central West (14), Central East (42), Regina (64), South West (14), South Central (16), South East (26) zones and twenty six (26) new cases have pending residence information.
- Thirty (30) cases with pending residence information were reassigned to Far North West (from September 18 (1), September 19 (3), September 20 (1)), Far North East (from September 6 (1), September 17 (1), September 20 (1)), North West (from September 20 (1)), North Central (from September 20 (1)), North East (from September 15 (3), September 17 (1)), Saskatoon (from September 18 (1), September 20 (4)), Central West (from September 18 (1), September 20 (1)), Regina (from September 20 (1)), South West (from September 19 (2)), South Central (from September 15 (1), September 16 (1), September 20 (2)), and South East (from September 14 (1), September 20 (1)) zones.
- 63,415 cases are confirmed
- 15,294 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 15,225 cases are from the North area (6,413 North West, 6,457 North Central, 2,355 North East)
- 13,168 cases are from the Regina area
- 7,847 cases are from the Far North area (3,654 Far North West, 525 Far North Central, 3,668 Far North East)
- 7,282 cases are from the South area (1,518 South West, 2,309 South Central, 3,455 South East)
- 4,123 cases are from the Central area (1,143 Central West, 2,980 Central East)
- 476 cases have pending residence information
- 4,706 cases are considered active and 58,058 cases are considered recovered.
- Around two-fifth (38.0%) of new cases are in the age category of 19 and under.
- Almost one in four (23.2%) of new cases eligible for vaccination (aged 12 years and older) were fully vaccinated.
- As of September 22nd, a total of 265 individuals are hospitalized; including 211 inpatient hospitalizations and 54 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 265 patients, 201 (75.8%) were not fully vaccinated.
- Five (5) new deaths reported today. 651 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died with a case fatality rate of 1.0%
- 1,101,974 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of September 20th, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 927,730 tests performed per million. The national rate was 1,114,860 tests performed per million.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 467 (38.8 new cases per 100,000).
COVID-19 new cases and vaccination status, September 22, 2021
| Age Group | Unvaccinated | Vaccinated, with One dose, and or two doses <14 days | Vaccinated, Second dose >=14 days | Total new cases |
| 0-11 | 107 | 107 | ||
| 12-19 | 59 | 3 | 1 | 63 |
| 20-29 | 51 | 2 | 3 | 56 |
| 30-39 | 34 | 2 | 13 | 49 |
| 40-49 | 35 | 3 | 17 | 55 |
| 50-59 | 26 | 1 | 17 | 44 |
| 60-69 | 17 | 8 | 25 | |
| 70-79 | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| 80+ | 7 | 1 | 9 | 17 |
| Total | 340 | 12 | 74 | 426 |
