There were almost as many recoveries as there were new cases, meaning Saskatchewan’s active cases of COVID-19 moved up marginally in the latest update from the provincial government’s novel coronavirus dashboard.
The latest numbers showed 199 new cases along with 195 recoveries, leaving 2,068 active cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan. However, the province did eclipse the 600 mark for total virus-related deaths in Monday’s update after three new fatalities were included, upping the total to 601. Of the 2,068 active cases, 111 people are in hospital with 27 of those infections being treated in an I-C-U. Otherwise, another 722 Saskatchewan residents become full immunized against COVID-19 on Sunday out of 1,173 total shots administered.
Highlights
- As of August 30th, there are 199 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 54,076 reported cases
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (8), Far North Central (3), Far North East (14), North West (32), North Central (22), North East (14), Saskatoon (62), Central West (4), Central East (3), Regina (8), South West (2), South Central (2) and South East (8) zones and 17 new cases have pending residence information
- Five (5) cases with pending location were assigned to the North West (from August 28 (5)) zone
- Two (2) cases were SK residents tested out of province and added to cases totals for Saskatoon (from August 26 (1), August 27(1))
- 54,076 cases are confirmed
- 12,904 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 12,450 cases are from the Regina area
- 12,133 cases are from the North area (5,132 North West, 5,117 North Central, 1,884 North East)
- 6,502 cases are from the Far North area (3,184 Far North West, 482 Far North Central, 2,836 Far North East)
- 6,323 cases are from the South area (1,267 South West, 2,041 South Central, 3,015 South East)
- 3,518 cases are from the Central area (932 Central West, 2,586 Central East)
- 246 cases have pending residence information
- 2,068 cases are considered active and 51,407 cases are considered recovered
- About two-fifths (40.2%) of new cases are in the 20 to 39 years age category
- About one in eight (13.6%) new cases was fully vaccinated
- As of August 30th, a total of 111 individuals are hospitalized; including 84 inpatient hospitalizations and 27 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 111 patients, 80 (72.1%) were not fully vaccinated
- Three (3) new deaths reported today. 601 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died with a case fatality rate of 1.1%
- A total of 50,754 individuals are resolved cases (93.9%). There are 100 new resolved cases located in the Far North West (4), Far North Central (1), Far North East (1), North West (4), North Central (16), North East (48), Saskatoon (1), Central West (3), Central East (5), and South Central (17) zones
- 1,022,156 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of August 27, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 855,986 tests performed per million. The national rate was 1,058,684 tests performed per million
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 228 (19.0 new cases per 100,000).
