The number of recoveries outnumbered the amount of new cases in Monday’s COVID-19 update from the Ministry of Health. Saskatchewan reported 1,449 recoveries and 909 new infections. This is the first time since December 20th that there have been more recoveries than new cases. Monday’s report also included an additional six Saskatchewan residents who recently tested positive for the virus outside of the province, which brings the total to 915 new cases in the province. Three new deaths were reported which brings the pandemic death toll to 975 in Saskatchewan. Hospitalized cases are up 10 from Sunday’s report with 262 now receiving care. Twenty-nine residents are in an ICU. The seven-day average for new cases is now at 1,256.

Below are the highlights posted to the Government of Saskatchewan’s website:

• As of January 24th, there are 909 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 110,399 reported cases 
• The new cases are located in the Far North West (2), Far North East (16), North West (30), North Central (15), North East (9), Saskatoon (235), Central West (21), Central East (69), Regina (281), South West (40), South Central (86) and South East (33) zones and 72 new cases have pending residence information 
• 56 cases with pending residence information were assigned to the North West (19), North Central (3), Saskatoon (13), Central West (1), Central East (3), Regina (12), South West (1), South Central (3), and South East (1) zones.
• Six (6) SK residents tested out-of-province were added to the Saskatoon (from January 21 (2), January 22 (1)), Regina (from January 20 (1), January 21 (1)), and South Central (from January 21 (1)) zones 
• 110,399 cases are confirmed 
  • 28,308 cases are from the Saskatoon area 
  • 23,589 cases are from the North area (10,306 North West, 9,807 North Central, 3,476 North East) 
  • 23,397 cases are from the Regina area 
  • 14,596 cases are from the South area (3,031 South West, 4,336 South Central, 7,229 South East) 
  • 10,202 cases are from the Far North area (4,813 Far North West, 582 Far North Central, 4,807 Far North East) 
  • 8,776 cases are from the Central area (2,025 Central West, 6,751 Central East) 
  • 1,531 cases have pending residence information 
• 12,753 cases are considered active and 96,671 cases are considered recovered 
• Two-fifths (40.0%) of new cases are in the age category of 20 to 39 
• As of January 24th, a total of 262 individuals are hospitalized; including 233 inpatient hospitalizations, and 29 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 262 patients, 99 (37.8%) were not fully vaccinated 
• The SHA dashboard includes 262 hospitalizations: 233 residents are inpatient: of those, 92 inpatient hospitalizations are a COVID-19-related illness, 102 are incidental COVID infections and 39 have not yet been determined. 29 residents are in ICUs: of those, 21 are for COVID-19-related illnesses, 5 are for incidental COVID infections and 3 are undetermined. 3 residents are in PICU/NICU: 2 are for COVID-19-related illnesses, 1 is for incidental COVID infections.
• Three (3) new deaths reported today. A total of 975 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died with a case fatality rate of 0.9% 
• 1,414,762 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of January 19, 2022, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 1,180,087 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 1,453,815 tests performed per million population
• As of today, the 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 1,256 (104.2 new cases per 100,000)