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3,577 COVID-19 vaccines given, 163 new cases, and three more deaths

Mar 6, 2021 | 2:07 PM

An additional 3,577 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 90,456.

The 3,577 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported on Saturday were administered in the following regions: North West (821), North Central (967), Saskatoon (909), Central East (44), Regina (826), and South East (10).

For a listing of first and second doses in Saskatchewan administered by geographic zone, visit here. https://www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-vaccine-update.

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There are 163 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Saturday, bringing the provincial total to 29,593 cases.

Three Saskatchewan residents who tested positive for COVID-19 died, and all three were from the Saskatoon zone. One was in the 50-59 age group, another in the 70-79 age group, and one was reported in the 80+ age group.

The new cases are located in the Far North West (4), Far North East (14), North West (10), North Central (20), North East (3), Saskatoon (34), Central West (one), Central East (12), Regina (58), South West (one) and South East (four) zones. Two (two) cases are pending residence information. Twelve cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far North West (five), North West (one), North Central (three) and Regina (three) zones. Two cases were found to be out-of-province residents and were removed from the counts.

There are a total of 27,584 recoveries and 1,613 cases are considered active.

One hundred and forty-two (142) people are in hospital. One hundred and twenty (120) people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (three), Far North East (one), North West (10), North Central (eight), North East (one), Saskatoon (57), Central East (three), Regina (35) and South East (two). Twenty-two people are in intensive care: North Central (two), Saskatoon (10), Central East (one) and Regina (nine).

There were 2,744 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on March 5, 2021.

To date, 591,853 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of March 4, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 496,237 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 656,193 tests performed per million population.

The seven-day average of daily new cases is 155 (12.7 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. Please visit here.

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NITHA numbers

There are 171 active cases of COVID-19 in Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority communities.

These cases are located in the Far North Central, Athabasca (seven), Far North West (44), Far North East (112), North Central (zero), and North East (eight); 3,019 cases (94%) have recovered, and four people are currently in hospital.

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