There are 131 new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan and there have been 82 recoveries. The province says 78 per cent of the new cases were unvaccinated, ten per cent were partially vaccinated and fourteen per cent had both their shots. The total number of active cases in the province is 1,066, which is an increase of 49 from Tuesday.
There are no new deaths in the report, so the total to date remains at 586. Eighty-two people are in the hospital, including 15 in ICU. The number of people given their first dose of vaccine has increased by three per cent from a month ago, with a total of 771,853 people having had their first shots.
Highlights
- As of August 18th, there are 131 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 51,630 reported cases
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (3), Far North Central (5), Far North East (24), North West (9), North Central (17), North East (3), Saskatoon (29), Central East (3), Regina (13), South West (5), South Central (6), and South East (8) zones, and 6 new cases are pending residence information
- Fourteen (14) cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far North West (from July 27 (1), July 28 (1), August 11 (1), August 16 (1)), Far North East (from May 1 (1), May 26 (1), May 29 (1), July 14 (1), and August 5 (1)), North Central (from August 15 (2), August 16 (2)), and Regina (from August 14 (1)) zones
- One (1) SK resident has been added to the case counts in the Far North East zone (from August 9 (1))
- One (1) case has been deemed to be a non-SK resident and removed from the North Central zone (from August 16 (1))
- 51,630 cases are confirmed
- 12,320 cases are from the Regina area
- 12,154 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 11,332 cases are from the North area (4,870 North West, 4,780 North Central, 1,682 North East)
- 6,160 cases are from the South area (1,222 South West, 1,998 South Central, 2,940 South East)
- 6,135 cases are from the Far North area (3,055 Far North West, 454 Far North Central, 2,626 Far North East)
- 3,364 cases are from the Central area (866 Central West, 2,498 Central East)
- 165 cases have pending residence information
- 1,066 cases are considered active and 49,978 cases are considered recovered
- Less than one-half (42.7%) of new cases are in the 20 to 39 years age category
- As of August 18th, a total of 82 individuals are hospitalized, including 67 inpatient hospitalizations and 15 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 82 patients, 63 (77%) are not fully vaccinated.
- No (0) new death reported today. 586 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died, with a case fatality rate of 1.1%
- 990,954 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of August 16, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 834,848 tests performed per million he national rate of 1,039,843 tests performed per million.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case number was 122 (10.1 new cases per 100,000)
