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Latest on COVID-19 in the province

5,430 new COVID-19 doses given, 115 new cases, one death

Mar 18, 2021 | 2:03 PM

An additional 5,430 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan as of Thursday, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 118,195.

The 5,430 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered in the following regions: Far North West (274), Far North East (131), North West (641), North Central (178), North East (54), Saskatoon (778), Central West (35), Central East (33), Regina (2,630), South West (431), and South East (245). Of the doses administered on Wednesday, 1,904 were delivered at the Regina drive-thru clinic location alone.

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

As of March 17, 66,101 appointments have been booked using the new appointment systems: 47,726 online and 18,375 by telephone.

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Daily COVID-19 Statistics

There are 115 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on March 18, bringing the provincial total to 31,085 cases.

One Saskatchewan resident who tested positive for COVID-19 has died. The death was reported in the 80+ age group from the Saskatoon zone.

The new cases are located in the Far North West (one), North West (four), North Central (three), North East (three), Saskatoon (15), Central West (two), Central East (five), Regina (65), South West (three), South Central (three) and South East (eight) zones. Three new cases are pending residence information. Four cases with pending residence information were assigned to the North Central zone.

There are a total of 29,392 recoveries and 1,282 cases are considered active.

One hundred thirty-six (136) people are in hospital. One hundred and nine (109) people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (3), Far North East (onee), North West (five), North Central (six), Saskatoon (41), Central East (six), Regina (41), South West (one), South Central (two) and South East (three). Twenty-seven (27) people are in intensive care: North West (one), Saskatoon (11), Central East (three), Regina (11), and South Central (one).

The seven-day average of daily new cases is 128 (10.4 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 here for more information.

There were 2,872 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on March 17, 2021.

To date, 620,536 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of Tuesday when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 521,050 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 687,834 tests performed per million population.

As of Thursday, there are no new confirmed variants of concern (VOC) cases to report. There are 135 confirmed variants of concern cases in Saskatchewan: 129 B1.1.1.7 (UK) and six B1.351 (SA). The Regina zone accounts for 121 (or 90 per cent) of the confirmed VOC cases reported in Saskatchewan.

In addition to the confirmed cases, there are currently 433 presumptive VOC cases reported in the Far North East (1), Saskatoon (12), Central East (6), Regina (368), South Central (27) and South East (19) zones.

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, the per capita testing rate and current numbers of confirmed variants of concern can be found on the Government of Saskatchewan website. Please visit here for more stats.

NITHA numbers

Facebook/NITHA Saskatchewan

There are 43 active cases of COVID-19 in Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority communities.
These cases are located in the Far North Central, Athabasca (eight), Far North West (one), Far North East (32), and North East (two); 3,229 cases (98%) have recovered, and 3 people are currently in hospital.

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