It has been six days since the province reported a COVID-19 related death in Saskatchewan. The last one was January 6th, for a total to date of 961 since the beginning over the pandemic. There are 1,084 new cases in Wednesday’s update and hospitalizations remain at 121, including 9 receiving care in an ICU, which is a decrease of two from Tuesday. As well, of that nine, two of the patients were in the hospital for something else when they tested positive. Of the 121 COVID patients in the hospital, 47 per cent weren’t fully vaccinated. Almost half of the new cases in today’s report, at 43.3 per cent are 20 to 39 year olds.

Highlights

As of January 12th, there are 1,084 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 95,174 reported cases
The new cases are located in the Far North West (23), Far North East (15), North West (40), North Central (22), North East (10), Saskatoon (416), Central West (6), Central East (48), Regina (287), South West (23), South Central (27) and South East (86) zones and 81 new cases have pending residence information
Twenty-one (21) cases were assigned to the North West (from January 6 (11), January 7 (1), January 10 (1)), North Central (from January 5 (2), January 6 (2), January 8 (1)), Central West (from January 9 (1)), Central East (from January 6 (1)), and South Central (from January 7 (1)) zones
Eleven (11) SK residents tested out-of-province were added to the case counts in the North West (from January 9 (1)), Saskatoon (from January 9 (2)), Regina (from January 8 (2), January 9 (4), January 10 (1)), and South Central (from January 9 (1)) zones
One (1) case was removed from the case counts in the South East zone from January 8, 2022
95,174 cases are confirmed
23,802 cases are from the Saskatoon area
21,087 cases are from the North area (9,298 North West, 8,719 North Central, 3,070 North East)
19,548 cases are from the Regina area
12,317 cases are from the South area (2,538 South West, 3,634 South Central, 6,145 South East)
9,630 cases are from the Far North area (4,550 Far North West, 543 Far North Central, 4,537 Far North East)
7,382 cases are from the Central area (1,701 Central West, 5,681 Central East)
1,408 cases have pending residence information
8,706 cases are considered active and 85,507 cases are considered recovered
Almost one-half (43.3%) of new cases are in the age category of 20 to 39
As of January 11th, a total of 121 individuals are hospitalized, including 112 inpatient hospitalizations and 9 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 121 patients, 57 (47.1%) were not fully vaccinated
The SHA dashboard includes 121 hospitalizations: 112 residents are inpatient: of those, 57 inpatient hospitalizations are a COVID-19-related illness, 45 are incidental, asymptomatic infections and 10 have not yet been determined. 9 residents are in ICUs: of those, 7 are for COVID-19-related illnesses, 2 is incidental, asymptomatic infections
No (0) new death reported today. 961 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died, with a case fatality rate of 1.0.
1,367,110 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of January 9, 2022, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 1,148,801 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 1,419,485 tests performed per million population.
As of today, the 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 1,057 (87.8 new cases per 100,000).
Since January 1, the New Cases by Vaccination Status table has shown a significant number of new cases as unvaccinated. This data is not accurate. This table is no longer featured on the dashboard until a review of the information is complete and the data rectified.