Canadian Press

By paNOW Staff

COVID-19 provincial report

Province gives out record 2,857 vaccine doses, 857 in Prince Albert

Jan 16, 2021 | 2:10 PM

The Saskatchewan Health Authority administered a record 2,857 in the past day, bringing the total number of vaccines up to 16,927.

Prince Albert received 857 of them while the other 2,000 were divided up between Saskatoon (893), Regina (267), North East (426), Far North West (129), and the South East (285). The Far North Central reported an additional 53 vaccines from Jan. 14 that were not previously reported.

A shipment of 4,900 Moderna vaccines arrived on Friday and are being distributed in the Central and South East zones. Due to poor weather conditions, the shipment was delayed to the Far North East zone and eventually arrived Saturday morning.

The SHA said in its Saturday release that production of the Pfizer vaccine will be “impacted for a few weeks” while the company expands its manufacturing facility. This could mean that deliveries could be cut in half. The SHA said vaccines will continue to be “administered as received to priority sequence.”

Click here for where vaccines have been administered in the province.

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Here is the province’s dashboard.

(Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)

New cases

Two COVID-19 deaths were reported on Saturday, both were from the Regina zone. One was in the 60 to 69 age group while the other was in the 80+ age group.

There are 270 new COVID-19 cases to report on Saturday, as the new provincial total is up to 19,985.

The new cases are located in the Far North West (10), Far North Central (one), Far North East (15), North West (49), North Central (23), North East (13), Saskatoon (68), Central East (5), Regina (47), South Central (6) and South East (26) zones and seven new cases have pending residence information.

Twelve cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far North West (one); Far North East (two); North Central (six); North West (one); Saskatoon (one) and South West (one) zones.

A total of 15,730 individuals have recovered and 4,043 cases are considered active.

(Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)

One hundred and ninety-nine people are in hospital. One hundred and sixty-four people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West three), Far North Central (one), Far North East (one), North West (10), North Central (30), North East (10), Saskatoon (55), Central West (one), Central East (seven), Regina (34), South West (one), South Central (one) and South East (10). Thirty-five people are in intensive care: North West (two), North Central (five), Saskatoon (17), Central East (one), Regina (nine) and South Central (one).

There were 3,071 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on January 15, 2021.

To date, 468,461 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of January 14, 2021 when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 271,772 people tested per million population. The national rate was 436,214 people tested per million population.

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.

The seven-day average of daily new cases is 311 (25.7 new cases per 100,000 population) and is now available on the Government of Saskatchewan website. This chart compares today’s average to data collected over the past several months.

(Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)

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