There are four new deaths of individuals who tested positive for COVID 19. The death toll since the beginning of the pandemic now sits at 951.
There are 293 more confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan as of Wednesday. That is a total of 1,189 since December 24th.
Regina has the lions share of new cases at 138 and Saskatoon comes up second with 60.
There are 1,645 cases considered active and of those 83 people are in hospital with 15 of the infections being treated in an ICU.
More than half of the new cases, eligible for vaccination, were fully vaccinated.
The total of Omicron cases reported includes 66 confirmed cases and 890 probable cases detected through screening. Thirty-nine-point-eight per cent are in the Saskatoon zone, 27.3 per cent are in the Regina zone and the remaining 271 cases (32.9%) are spread across the remaining zones, with each zone having at least one Omicron case except Far North Central.
Highlights
As of December 29th, there are 293 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 83,855 reported cases.
The new cases are located in the Far North West (1), Far North East (3), North West (4), North Central (3), North East (4), Saskatoon (60), Central West (5), Central East (13), Regina (138), South West (2), South Central (19), South East (12), and 29 new cases have pending residence information.
Two (2) cases were assigned to North West (from December 26 (1)), and Saskatoon (from December 27 (1)) zones.
Four (4) SK residents tested positive out-of-province were added to the case counts in the Saskatoon (from December 26 (1)) , and Regina (from December 20 (1), December 25 (2)) zones.
83,855 cases are confirmed
20,136 cases are from the Saskatoon area
20,119 cases are from the North area (8,936 North West, 8,317 North Central, 2,866 North East)
16,571 cases are from the Regina area
10,581 cases are from the South area (2,231 South West, 3,114 South Central, 5,236 South East)
9,424 cases are from the Far North area (4,426 Far North West, 541 Far North Central, 4,457 Far North East)
6,380 cases are from the Central area (1,492 Central West, 4,888 Central East)
644 cases have pending residence information
1,645 cases are considered active and 81,259 cases are considered recovered.
One-half (50.9%) of new cases are in the age category of 20 to 39.
More than one-half (55.9%) of new cases eligible for vaccination (aged 5 years and older) were fully vaccinated.
As of December 29th, a total of 83 individuals are hospitalized, including 68 inpatient hospitalizations and 15 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 83 patients, 47 (56.6%) were not fully vaccinated.
Four (4) new deaths today. 951 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died, with a case fatality rate of 1.1%.
1,325,835 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of December 23, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 1,113,380 tests performed per million. The national rate was 1,346,185 tests performed per million.
The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 200 (16.6 new cases per 100,000).
