Ninety-seven of 439 new cases of COVID-19 were found in children aged 11-and-under, the most of any of the nine demographic groups and the only one not eligible to be vaccinated.
The latest dashboard reading from the Government of Saskatchewan website showed 391 recoveries and one novel coronavirus-related death, leaving 4,064 active cases of COVID-19 in the province. Of the active cases, 218 people are in hospital, including 48 infections being treated in an I-C-U. Compared with Wednesday, the number of new cases was down by 36, the number of children aged 11-and-under contracting the virus was down by seven and the number of hospitalized patients was down by six. However, there are eight more I-C-U patients in Thursday’s update than there were Wednesday. In addition, 347 of the 439 new cases in the last report were individuals who are unvaccinated.
Highlights
- As of September 16th, there are 439 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 60,589 reported cases.
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (22), Far North East (39), North West (61), North Central (42), North East (11), Saskatoon (124), Central West (8), Central East (29), Regina (28), South West (5), South Central (7) and South East (38) zones and 25 new cases have pending residence information.
- 20 cases with pending residence information were reassigned to Far North West (from September 12 (1)), Far North East (from September 9 (2), September 13 (1)), North West (from September 13 (1), September 14 (1)), North Central (from September 10 (1), September 11 (1), September 13 (2), September 14 (5)), North East (from September 14 (2)), Saskatoon (from September 13 (1)), Regina (from September 13 (1)), and South Central (from September 14 (1)) zones.
- One (1) SK resident tested out-of-province was added to the case counts in Regina (from September 13 (1)).
- 60,589 cases are confirmed.
- 14,664 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 14,391 cases are from the North area (6,052 North West, 6,141 North Central, 2,198 North East)
- 12,828 cases are from the Regina area
- 7,549 cases are from the Far North area (3,530 Far North West, 520 Far North Central, 3,499 Far North East)
- 6,853 cases are from the South area (1,404 South West, 2,159 South Central, 3,290 South East)
- 3,900 cases are from the Central area (1,077 Central West, 2,823 Central East)
- 404 cases have pending residence information
- 4,064 cases are considered active and 55,895 cases are considered recovered.
- One-third (33.3%) of new cases are in the 19 years and under age category.
- More than one in seven (16.4%) new cases were fully vaccinated.
- As of September 16th, a total of 218 individuals are hospitalized; including 170 inpatient hospitalizations and 48 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 218 patients, 160 (73.4%) were not fully vaccinated.
- One (1) new death reported today. 630 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died with a case fatality rate of 1.0%.
- 1,078,107 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of September 14th, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 907,317 tests performed per million. The national rate was 1,098,599 tests performed per million.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 438 (36.4 new cases per 100,000).
COVID-19 new cases and vaccination status, September 16, 2021
| Age Group | Unvaccinated | Vaccinated, with One dose, and or two doses <14 days | Vaccinated, Second dose >=14 days | Total new cases |
| 0-11 | 97 | 97 | ||
| 12-19 | 37 | 6 | 4 | 47 |
| 20-29 | 67 | 3 | 9 | 79 |
| 30-39 | 47 | 3 | 12 | 62 |
| 40-49 | 33 | 2 | 11 | 46 |
| 50-59 | 25 | 3 | 11 | 39 |
| 60-69 | 15 | 2 | 12 | 29 |
| 70-79 | 12 | 2 | 14 | |
| 80+ | 14 | 1 | 11 | 26 |
| Total | 347 | 20 | 72 | 439 |
