The day-over-day number of active cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan was down Monday from Sunday for the first time in three weeks, according to the dashboard readings off the provincial government website.
With 398 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 470 recoveries in the latest update, the active case count went down from 4,864 on Sunday to 4,788 Monday.
The last time the active case count went down was September 6-7. However, the pandemic-record number of hospitalized cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan rose by eight more to 289, including 63 in an I-C-U.
There were two more virus-related fatalities, bringing the Saskatchewan total to 672. There were more COVID-19 tests performed on Sunday than vaccination doses administered, 3,779 compared to 2,510. Over 1,300 of those shots were first time immunizations.
Highlights
- As of September 27th, there are 398 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 65,897 reported cases.
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (19), Far North East (14), North West (32), North Central (43), North East (16), Saskatoon (147), Central West (17), Central East (18), Regina (32), South West (23), South Central (7) and South East (13) zones and seventeen (17) new cases have pending residence information.
- 19 cases with pending residence information were reassigned to Far North West (from September 20 (1)), North West (from September 14 (1), September 22 (1), September 23 (1), September 24 (1), September 25 (3)), North Central (from September 22 (1), September 23 (1), September 25 (3)), ), Saskatoon (from September 25 (2)), and Regina (from September 22 (1), September 25 (3)) zones.
- Two (2) cases have been deemed to be non-SK residents and removed from Saskatoon zone (from September 25, 2021)
- 65,897 cases are confirmed
- 15,928 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 15,899 cases are from the North area (6,782 North West, 6,687 North Central, 2,430 North East)
- 13,444 cases are from the Regina area
- 8,062 cases are from the Far North area (3,776 Far North West, 531 Far North Central, 3,755 Far North East)
- 7,735 cases are from the South area (1,675 South West, 2,436 South Central, 3,624 South East)
- 4,319 cases are from the Central area (1,209 Central West, 3,110 Central East)
- 510 cases have pending residence information
- 4,788 cases are considered active and 60,437 cases are considered recovered.
- Nearly one-third (32.4%) of new cases are in the age category of 20 to 39.
- One in six (16.4%) new cases eligible for vaccination (aged 12 years and older) were fully vaccinated.
- As of September 27th, a total of 289 individuals are hospitalized; including 226 inpatient hospitalizations and 63 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 287 patients eligible for vaccination, 225 (78.4%) were not fully vaccinated.
- Two (2) new deaths reported today. 672 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died with a case fatality rate of 1.0
- 1,121,821 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of September 24, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers were available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 937,394 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 1,123,656 tests performed per million population.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers is 461 (38.3 new cases per 100,000).
COVID-19 new cases and vaccination status, September 27, 2021
| Age Group | Unvaccinated | Vaccinated, with One dose, and or two doses <14 days | Vaccinated, Second dose >=14 days | Total new cases |
| 0-11 | 87 | 87 | ||
| 12-19 | 40 | 1 | 3 | 44 |
| 20-29 | 53 | 3 | 5 | 61 |
| 30-39 | 54 | 5 | 9 | 68 |
| 40-49 | 33 | 2 | 13 | 48 |
| 50-59 | 24 | 3 | 7 | 34 |
| 60-69 | 23 | 6 | 29 | |
| 70-79 | 16 | 4 | 20 | |
| 80+ | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Total | 333 | 14 | 51 | 398 |
