(The Canadian Press)

By paNOW Staff

New COVID case count

New COVID cases on the downswing as number of deaths per week remain consistent

Apr 21, 2022 | 2:06 PM

The province has reported 890 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province during the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 integrated epidemiology (epi) report this week.

The number of new laboratory-confirmed cases was lower than the number of new cases in the previous week (1,050).

There were 22 COVID-19 deaths over the past week, 10 per cent higher than in the previous week (20).

During the two month period from February 13 to April 16, the risk of hospitalization, ICU admission and death was slightly higher among unvaccinated people compared to those vaccinated with three doses.

There were nearly 40 COVID-like illness patients per 1,000 emergency department visits which is higher than the average weekly rate in the previous six weeks (34.2 per week/1,000 visits).

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There are currently 18 confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care and care home settings that were reported this week.

The province is reporting 7,354 laboratory tests were performed in Saskatchewan during the current reporting period. The number of tests was lower than the number of tests in the previous week (7,996).

Slightly more than one in nine laboratory tests was positive for a weekly test positivity of 11.7 per cent, which is lower compared to the previous week (13 per cent).

As of April 16, of the population five years and older, 85.8 per cent received at least one dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine and 80.8 per cent completed a series.

Among the population 18 years and older, 51.7 per cent had received at least one booster vaccination.

Weekly COVID-19 Epi Report
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Issued Thursdays, the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 integrated epidemiology (epi) report uses different 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 April 10 to April 16. The hospitalization data is a comparison from April 13 to 20.

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

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