(The Canadian Press)

By paNOW Staff

Provincial summary reports 895 new COVID cases, 33 deaths last week

Mar 24, 2022 | 2:00 PM

The Ministry of Health released the COVID-19 summary for the week of March 13-19 today.

There were 895 new cases confirmed in the province during that time, reflecting about 0.7 laboratory-confirmed cases per 1,000 population.

There were 33 newly reported COVID-19 deaths, about 18 per cent more than in the previous week count of 28.

The 7,488 laboratory tests performed in Saskatchewan during that time reflects a 10 per cent increase than the number of tests in the previous week which was 6,826.

More than one in nine laboratory tests were positive (weekly test positivity of 11.7 per cent), similar to the previous week.

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There were 29.7 COVID-like illness patients per 1,000 emergency department visits which is lower than the average weekly rate in the previous six weeks (38.1 per week/1,000 visits).

Ten confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care and care home settings were reported this week.

As of March 19, of the population five years and older, 85.7 per cent received at least one dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine and 80.5 per cent completed a series.

Among the population 18 years and older, 51.2 per cent had received at least one booster vaccination.

More than 19.2 million rapid antigen test kits that have been distributed in the province. They are easily accessible at 630 locations.

Issued Thursdays, the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 integrated epidemiology (epi) report utilizes multiple data sources and includes laboratory-confirmed cases, deaths, tests, vaccination information provincially and by zones, as well as hospital and ICU census trends and distribution of rapid antigen tests. The epi report this week looked at data from Sunday, March 13 to Saturday, March 19, 2022. The hospitalization data is a comparison from Thursday, March 16 to noon March 23, 2022.

The integrated epi report can be found online at saskatchewan.ca/COVID-19-cases.

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