Following a five-week low for daily new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday in Saskatchewan, there was nearly double the number of new cases in Wednesday’s look at the dashboard on the provincial government’s website.
There were 478 new cases in the latest update, of which 99 were children under-12 years old who are not eligible to be vaccinated, substantially more than the 242 new cases reported on Tuesday. However, the active case count in Saskatchewan went down by 72 day-over-day from Tuesday to Wednesday at 4,313 as the latest update had 543 recoveries. The number of hospitalized patients went up by 16 from Tuesday to 356, including a pandemic record of 76 infections being treated in an I-C-U. There were also seven new fatalities reported for a virus-related death total of 733 in Saskatchewan. The number of COVID-19 tests performed and doses of vaccine administered went up substantially on Tuesday from Monday. Tests were up 1,637 to 4,015 while vaccine shots went up by 2,651 from Monday to 4,223 on Tuesday.
Highlights
- As of October 6th, there are 478 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 69,809 reported cases.
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (25), Far North Central (1), Far North East (29), North West (88), North Central (28), North East (10), Saskatoon (153), Central West (5), Central East (16), Regina (50), South West (9), South Central (5) and South East (21) zones and thirty eight (38) new cases have pending residence information.
- 27 cases with pending residence information were reassigned to Far North West (from September 5 (1), October 4 (1)), North West (from August 25 (1), August 28 (1), August 29 (1), August 30 (1), September 3 (1), September 4 (1), September 7 (3), October 4 (3)), North Central (from October 1 (1), October 3 (1), October 4 (8)), Saskatoon (from October 4 (2)) and Regina (from October 4 (1)) zones.
- 69,809 cases are confirmed
- 16,912 cases are from the North area (7,330 North West, 7,024 North Central, 2,558 North East)
- 16,877 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 14,031 cases are from the Regina area
- 8,411 cases are from the Far North area (3,953 Far North West, 539 Far North Central, 3,919 Far North East)
- 8,381 cases are from the South area (1,869 South West, 2,636 South Central, 3,876 South East)
- 4,606 cases are from the Central area (1,278 Central West, 3,328 Central East)
- 591 cases have pending residence information
- 4,313 cases are considered active and 64,763 cases are considered recovered.
- Less than one-third (31.6%) of new cases are in the age category of 20 to 39.
- Less than one in four (23.5%) of new cases eligible for vaccination (aged 12 years and older) were fully vaccinated.
- As of October 6th, a total of 356 individuals are hospitalized; including 280 inpatient hospitalizations, and 76 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 356 patients, 273 (76.7%) were not fully vaccinated.
- Seven (7) new deaths reported today. 733 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died with a case fatality rate of 1.1%
- 1,153,744 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of October 4, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 971,265 tests performed per million. The national rate of 1,153,990 tests performed per million.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 439 (36.4 new cases per 100,000).
