(The Canadian Press)

By paNOW Staff

EPI reports 832 new COVID cases and 28 deaths last week

Mar 17, 2022 | 2:12 PM

The province has reported that 832 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed last week.

In the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 integrated epidemiology (EPI) dated March 6–12, another 28 new COVID deaths were reported during that time compared to 13 in the previous week. Also 6,826 laboratory tests were performed in Saskatchewan reflecting 5.7 tests per 1,000 population.

The number of tests was about 90 per cent of the number of tests in the previous week (7,518).

Percentage of positive tests (11.8 per cent) was lower than in the previous week (12.7 per cent).

There were 27.1 COVID-like illness patients per 1,000 emergency department visits which is lower than the average weekly rate in the previous six weeks (38.9 per week/1,000 visits).

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As of March 12, of the population five years and older, 85.6 per cent received at least one dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine and 80.5 per cent completed their series.

Among the population 18 years and older, 51 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 by the Ministry of Health each Thursday, the 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 looks at data from Sunday, March 6 to Saturday, March 12, 2022. The hospitalization data is a comparison from Thursday, March 9 to noon March 16, 2022.

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

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