The COVID-19 dashboard reading from the Government of Saskatchewan website showed less than 300 new cases of the novel coronavirus and a significant drop in active cases in the province.
Tuesday’s update had 271 new cases of COVID-19 along with 478 recoveries and two virus-related fatalities, leaving 4,450 active cases. From that number, 348 individuals are in hospital, including 80 in an I-C-U.
The 348 hospitalized cases of COVID-19 was up one from Monday’s update, which also showed 2,425 tests for the novel coronavirus and just 539 doses of vaccine administered. The weekly Ministry of Health news release has 74 per cent of Saskatchewan residents aged 12-and-over as being fully vaccinated with 83 per cent of the eligible population having received at least one shot.
Highlights
- As of October 12th, there are 271 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 72,730 reported cases.
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (9), Far North East (19), North West (35), North Central (30), North East (9), Saskatoon (81), Central West (2), Central East (25), Regina (35), South West (3), South Central (4) and South East (3) zones and 16 new cases have pending residence information.
- 9 cases with pending residence information were reassigned to North West (from September 25 (1), September 29 (1), October 1 (1)), Saskatoon (from October 10 (1)), Central East (from October 10 (1)), and Regina (from October 5 (1), October 9 (2), October 10 (1)) zones.
- One (1) SK resident tested positive out-of-province was added to the Saskatoon zone on October 7, 2021.
- 72,730 cases are confirmed
- 17,745 cases are from the North area (7,810 North West, 7,294 North Central, 2,641 North East)
- 17,547 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 14,427 cases are from the Regina area
- 8,791 cases are from the South area (1,989 South West, 2,701 South Central, 4,101 South East)
- 8,688 cases are from the Far North area (4,077 Far North West, 541 Far North Central, 4,070 Far North East)
- 4,896 cases are from the Central area (1,321 Central West, 3,575 Central East)
- 636 cases have pending residence information
- 4,450 cases are considered active and 67,527 cases are considered recovered.
- Nearly one quarter (24.4%) of new cases are in the age category of 20 to 39 as well as 24.4% of new cases are in the 0-11 age category.
- One in five (20.5%) of new cases eligible for vaccination (aged 12 years and older) were fully vaccinated.
- As of October 12th, a total of 348 individuals are hospitalized; including 268 inpatient hospitalizations, and 80 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 348 patients, 261 (75%) were not fully vaccinated.
- Two (2) new deaths reported today. 753 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died with a case fatality rate of 1.0%
- 1,177,743 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of October 7, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 983,085 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 1,162,631 tests performed per million population.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 487 (40.4 new cases per 100,000).
COVID-19 new cases and vaccination status, October 12, 2021
| Age Group | Unvaccinated | Vaccinated, with One dose, and or two doses <14 days | Vaccinated, Second dose >=14 days | Total new cases |
| 0-11 | 66 | 66 | ||
| 12-19 | 26 | 2 | 5 | 33 |
| 20-29 | 21 | 3 | 4 | 28 |
| 30-39 | 32 | 2 | 4 | 38 |
| 40-49 | 25 | 3 | 8 | 36 |
| 50-59 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 17 |
| 60-69 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 22 |
| 70-79 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 24 |
| 80+ | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
| Total | 212 | 17 | 42 | 271 |
COVID-19 Summary for October 12, 2021:
- From October 6 – 12, 27,373 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 1,604,075.
- As of October 12, 83 per cent of those 12+ have received their first dose and 74 per cent of those 12+ are fully vaccinated.
- There were 3,410 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan from October 6 – 12, bringing the provincial total to 72,730 cases. There were 3,307 recoveries recorded during the same period.
- The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan is currently 487 (40.4 per 100,000).
- Twenty-seven new deaths were reported October 6 – 12.
- There were 384 new lineage results reported for October 6 – 12.
- As of October 12, there are 348 people in hospital: 268 are receiving inpatient care and 80 are in intensive care. Two hundred and sixty-one of the people in hospital (75 per cent) are not fully vaccinated.
- From October 6 – 12, there were 28,014 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan.
