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New COVID-19 vaccine shipments expected this week; 116 new cases reported, two deaths, 209 recoveries

Mar 7, 2021 | 1:52 PM

A Pfizer vaccine shipment is expected on Tuesday to supply Saskatoon (3,510 doses) and Regina (3,510 doses). The province is then expected to receive another shipment on Wednesday to give North Battleford (4,680 doses), Yorkton (1,170 doses), and Prince Albert (1,170 doses) vaccines to administer.

As of Sunday’s report from the Government of Saskatchewan, an additional 1,428 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in the province. That brings the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 91,884.

The 1,428 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered in the following regions: North West (388), North Central (226), Saskatoon (522), and Regina (292).

For a listing of first and second doses in Saskatchewan administered by geographic zone, visit here.

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Sunday Statistics

There are 116 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on March 7, bringing the provincial total to 29,709 cases.

Two Saskatchewan residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. One death was reported in the 40-49 age group from the Far North West zone and one death was reported in the 19 and under age group from the North West zone.

The new cases are located in the Far North West (6), Far North Central (1), Far North East (3), North West (6), North Central (8), Saskatoon (19), Central West (2), Central East (8), Regina (50), South West (2), South Central (5) and South East (6) zones. One case with pending residence information was assigned to the Regina (1) zone.

There are a total of 27,793 recoveries and 1,518 cases are considered active.

One hundred and thirty-six (136) people are in hospital. One hundred and fourteen (114)) people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (3), Far North East (1), North West (11), North Central (10), North East (1), Saskatoon (50), Central East (3), Regina (33) and South East (2). Twenty-two people are in intensive care: North Central (1), Saskatoon (11), Central East (1) and Regina (9).

There were 2,263 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on March 6, 2021.

To date, 594,116 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of March 6, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 499,027 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 659,550 tests performed per million population.

The seven-day average of daily new cases is 152 (12.4 new cases per 100,000). A chart comparing today’s average to data collected over the past several months is available on the Government of Saskatchewan website. Please visit the dashboard here.

Further statistics on the total number of cases among healthcare workers, breakdowns of total cases by source of infection, age, sex, and region, total tests to date, and the per capita testing rate can be found on the Government of Saskatchewan website.

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NITHA numbers

There are 147 active cases of COVID-19 in Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) communities.

These cases are located in the Far North Central, Athabasca (6), Far North West (35), Far North East (101), North Central (0), and North East (5). 3044 cases (95%) have recovered, and 4 people are currently in hospital.

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