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New COVID-19 vaccine record set in province, 321 new cases

Apr 11, 2021 | 2:03 PM

For the second straight day, Saskatchewan set another COVID-19 vaccine record, as they gave 13,170 doses. Now, 282,065 doses have been administered in the province to date.

The 13,170 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered to residents living in the following regions: Far North West (223), Far North Central (one), Far North East (78), North West (811), North Central (397), North East (591), Saskatoon (2,072), Central West (692), Central East (1,427), Regina (3,085), South West (725), South Central (1,020) and South East (1,621). There were 427 doses administered with zone of residence pending.

Fifty per cent of Saskatchewan residents age 50+ have received their first dose:

All vaccine administration details for the province, including first and second doses, can be found on the dashboard. As the source database for vaccine information, Panorama is subject to continuous data updates which may result in revised counts, day over day.

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There are 321 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Sunday, bringing the provincial total to 36,305 cases. That’s the second time this weekend cases have exceeded the 300-mark, as there were 356 cases reported on Friday.

Three cases were found to be out-of-province residents and were removed from Saskatoon (two) and South East (one) zones. Four cases that were previously not reported were added to Saskatoon (two) and South East (two) zones.

There was one new death in the 60-69 range in the Central East zone.

The new cases are located in the Far North West (six), Far North East (two), North West (21), North Central (eight), North East (six), Saskatoon (78), Central West (four), Central East (12), Regina (120), South West (three), South Central (17) and South East (36) zones. Eight (8) new cases have pending residence information. Three cases with pending residence information have been assigned to Far North West (one) and North West (two) zones. There are a total of 33,347 recoveries and 2,504 cases are considered active.

One hundred and ninety-nine (199) people are in hospital. One hundred and fifty-three (153) people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (two), Far North East (one), North West (four), North Central (three), North East (two), Saskatoon (43), Central East (12), Regina (78), South West (one) and South East (seven). Forty-six (46) people are in intensive care: North Central (five), Saskatoon (nine), Central East (three), Regina (25), South West (one), and South Central (three).

The seven-day average of daily new cases is 249 (20.3 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.

There were 3,601 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on Saturday. To date, 704,555 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of April 9, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 590,539 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 759,783 tests performed per million population.

As of April 11, 3,271 variants of concern have been identified by screening in Saskatchewan, reported in the Far North West (seven), Far North East (one), North West (nine), North Central (39), North East (three), Saskatoon (171), Central West (12), Central East (82), Regina (2,271), South West (28), South Central (286) and South East (310) zones. There are 52 cases with residence pending.

These were previously reported as “presumptive positives,” but all screening tests will be considered confirmed VOCs for the purposes of public reporting and contact investigations.

There were zero new lineage results being reported today. Of the 1,435 VOCs with lineages identified by whole genome sequencing in Saskatchewan, 1,426 are B.1.1.1.7 (UK) and nine are B.1.351 (SA). The Regina zone accounts for 1,131 (79 per cent) of the VOC cases with confirmed lineage reported in Saskatchewan.

Note that these VOC may have been initially identified via means other than screening (i.e. selection for whole-genome sequencing without screening) and that whole-genome sequencing results to identify lineage are included in the screening results.

Confirmed variant of concern cases may appear in both columns on the website, depending on testing for that case. Adding the cases identified by screening and those that have received whole genome sequencing may result in double-counting individual cases.

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, per capita testing rate and current numbers of confirmed variants of concern can be found here.

Facebook/NITHA Saskatchewan

NITHA numbers

There are 44 active cases of COVID-19 in Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority communities.

These cases are located in the Far North Central, Athabasca (one), Far North West (20), Far North East (19), North Central (zero), and North East (four). In all, 3,351 cases (98%) have recovered and one person is in hospital.

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