Saskatchewan recorded daily highs for new cases of COVID-19 and most novel coronavirus tests performed, yet the number of hospitalized people went down in Thursday’s dashboard update from the provincial government’s website.
There were 650 new cases from 6,145 tests administered.
Coupled with 393 recoveries and Saskatchewan surpassed 70,000 total COVID-19 cases, as well as 65,000 recovered cases. The active number of viruses in the province is at 4,564. Hospitalized individuals went down by eight from Wednesday to 348, including a pandemic record 78 infections being treated in an I-C-U.
There were four new COVID-19-related fatalities in the latest update, along with 4,449 doses of vaccine administered, including another 2,024 eligible residents becoming fully vaccinated.
Of Thursday’s 650 new cases, 241 were not previously entered into the province’s COVID-19 database, even though the infected individuals had been notified at the time the tests were taken.
Highlights
- As of October 7th, there are 650* new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 70,457 reported cases
- * The Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory (RRPL) has determined that results from a number of specimens tested for COVID-19 were not entered into the provincial COVID-19 database. After an investigation, it was determined 2,777 tests were not entered in September, including 241 positive tests. Note that these issues did not affect the notification of positive results to tested individuals. October 7, 2021 new case number reflects the addition of the 241 confirmed COVID-19 cases. As of October 7, there are 409 confirmed cases with the additional 241 posted results for a total of 650.
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (23), Far North East (31), North West (141), North Central (53), North East (18), Saskatoon (82), Central West (16), Central East (50), Regina (97), South West (19), South Central (17) and South East (63) zones and forty (40) new cases have pending residence information
- 27 cases with pending residence information were reassigned to Far North West (from September 5 (1), September 30 (1), October 5 (2)), Far North East (from October 2 (1), October 5 (4)), North West (from September 9 (1), October 5 (3)), North Central (from October 4 (3)), Saskatoon (from October 5 (2)), Central East (from October 4 (1), October 5 (1)), Regina (from October 4 (3), October 5 (1)), and South East (from October 4 (3)) zones
- Two (2) duplicate cases have been removed; one (1) from Regina zone (from September 28)), and one (1) pending location (from September 25))
- 70,457 cases are confirmed
- 17,131 cases are from the North area (7,475 North West, 7,080 North Central, 2,576 North East)
- 16,961 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 14,131 cases are from the Regina area
- 8,483 cases are from the South area (1,888 South West, 2,653 South Central, 3,942 South East)
- 8,474 cases are from the Far North area (3,980 Far North West, 539 Far North Central, 3,955 Far North East)
- 4,674 cases are from the Central area (1,294 Central West, 3,380 Central East)
- 603 cases have pending residence information
- 4,564 cases are considered active and 65,156 cases are considered recovered
- More than one fourth (27.2%) of new cases are in the age category of 20 to 39
- One in four (25.8%) of new cases eligible for vaccination (aged 12 years and older) were fully vaccinated
- As of October 7th, a total of 348 individuals are hospitalized, including 270 inpatient hospitalizations and 78 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 348 patients, 266 (76.4%) were not fully vaccinated.
- Four (4) new deaths reported today. 737 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died, with a case fatality rate of 1.0%.
- 1,159,889 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of October 5, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 974,672 tests performed per million population and was lower than the national rate of 1,156,291 tests performed per million population.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 446 (37.0 new cases per 100,000).
COVID-19 new cases and vaccination status, October 7, 2021
| Age Group | Unvaccinated | Vaccinated, with One dose, and or two doses <14 days | Vaccinated, Second dose >=14 days | Total new cases |
| 0-11 | 154 | 154 | ||
| 12-19 | 86 | 8 | 10 | 104 |
| 20-29 | 65 | 13 | 15 | 93 |
| 30-39 | 56 | 5 | 23 | 84 |
| 40-49 | 49 | 5 | 30 | 84 |
| 50-59 | 45 | 2 | 15 | 62 |
| 60-69 | 16 | 4 | 11 | 31 |
| 70-79 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| 80+ | 4 | 14 | 18 | |
| Total | 362 | 27 | 89 | 478 |
