While Saskatchewan’s COVID-19-related death number continues to rise, along with the almost-daily increase of hospitalizations, including I-C-U patients, due to the novel coronavirus, the province’s active case count went down for a second straight day.
According to Monday’s dashboard update on the Government of Saskatchewan website, there were 445 new cases of COVID-19 with 523 recoveries, leaving 4,635 active cases, 83 fewer than in Sunday’s report.
However, there were five new deaths because of the virus, plus four more positive COVID-19 cases being hospitalized and six more infections being treated in an I-C-U. In total, 716 provincial residents have died from the novel coronavirus. There are now 325 individuals in hospital, including 75 in an I-C-U.
Seventy-six-point-eight per cent of the hospitalized patients are not fully vaccinated.
Highlights
- As of October 4th, there are 445 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 69,089 reported cases
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (14), Far North Central (1), Far North East (18), North West (39), North Central (35), North East (16), Saskatoon (116), Central West (6), Central East (29), Regina (90), South West (26), South Central (7) and South East (33) zones and fifteen (15) new cases have pending residence information
- 24 cases with pending residence information were reassigned to Far North East (from September 23 (1)), North West (from September 13 (3), September 16 (2), September 20 (1), September 29 (1), October 2 (1)), North Central (from October 2 (4)), Saskatoon (from October 2 (1)), Regina (from September 26(1), September 27 (1), October 1 (1), October 2 (6)), South East (from October 1 (1)) zones.
- 69,089 cases are confirmed
- 16,703 cases are from the North area (7,194 North West, 6,971 North Central, 2,538 North East
- 16,663 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 13,972 cases are from the Regina area
- 8,333 cases are from the Far North area (3,916 Far North West, 538 Far North Central, 3,879 Far North East)
- 8,305 cases are from the South area (1,849 South West, 2,616 South Central, 3,840 South East)
- 4,559 cases are from the Central area (1,267 Central West, 3,292 Central East)
- 554 cases have pending residence information
- 4,635 cases are considered active and 63,738 cases are considered recovered
- Nearly one-third (32.6%) of new cases are in the age category of 20 to 39
- More than one in four (25.6%) of new cases eligible for vaccination (aged 12 years and older) were fully vaccinated
- As of October 4th, a total of 325 individuals are hospitalized, including 250 inpatient hospitalizations and 75 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 325 patients eligible for vaccination, 250 (76.8%) were not fully vaccinated.
- Five (5) new deaths reported today. 716 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died, with a case fatality rate of 1.0%.
- 1,147,351 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of September 30, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 961,276 tests performed per million. The national rate was 1,143,428 tests performed per million.
- The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 456 (37.9 new cases per 100,000)
COVID-19 new cases and vaccination status, October 4, 2021
| Age Group | Unvaccinated | Vaccinated, with One dose, and or two doses <14 days | Vaccinated, Second dose >=14 days | Total new cases |
| 0-11 | 94 | 94 | ||
| 12-19 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 26 |
| 20-29 | 47 | 2 | 7 | 56 |
| 30-39 | 63 | 9 | 17 | 89 |
| 40-49 | 28 | 1 | 11 | 40 |
| 50-59 | 29 | 1 | 18 | 48 |
| 60-69 | 28 | 3 | 19 | 50 |
| 70-79 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 20 |
| 80+ | 14 | 8 | 22 | |
| Total | 334 | 21 | 90 | 445 |
