Thursday’s peek at the Saskatchewan Government’s COVID-19 dashboard brought a mixed bag of good and bad statistics. New cases of the novel coronavirus were down from Wednesday’s 321 to 267. However, the seven-day average went up by 15 from Wednesday to 279. Add in 170 recoveries and the provinces active COVID-19 case count is up to 2,466, 94 more than was recorded on Wednesday. There was one new virus-related death to bring Saskatchewan’s total fatalities to 608 while the hospitalized number stayed the same as Wednesday at 134. The positive from that stat was the number of infections being treated in an I-C-U dropped to 23 today from 30 in the province on Wednesday. As for vaccinations, another 1,019 Saskatchewan residents became fully immunized on Wednesday out of a total of 1,789 shots administered.
Highlights
- As of September 2nd, there are 267 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 54,953 reported cases
- The new cases are located in the Far North West (15), Far North Central (2), Far North East (31), North West (50), North Central (40), North East (7), Saskatoon (59), Central West (3), Central East (5), Regina (14), South Central (2) and South East (18) zones and 21 new cases have pending residence information
- 45 cases with pending location were assigned to the Far North West (from August 30 (3), August 31 (11)), Far North Central (August 27 (3), August 31 (2)), Far North East (from August 31 (2)), North West (August 8 (1), August 22 (1), August 27 (4), August 30 (1), August 31 (6)), North Central (August 31 (8)), North East (August 14 (1), August 31 (1)) and Regina (August 31 (1)) zones
- Three (3) cases were SK residents tested out of province and added to cases totals for Central East (from August 31 (2)) and Regina (August 31 (1)) zones
- Five (5) cases were deemed non-SK residents and removed from case totals and have pending resident information (from August 2 (1), August 14 (3), August 16 (1))
- 54,953 cases are confirmed
- 13,136 cases are from the Saskatoon area
- 12,496 cases are from the Regina area
- 12,420 cases are from the North area (5,248 North West, 5,258 North Central, 1,914 North East)
- 6,713 cases are from the Far North area (3,236 Far North West, 493 Far North Central, 2,984 Far North East)
- 6,376 cases are from the South area (1,281 South West, 2,047 South Central, 3,048 South East)
- 3,561 cases are from the Central area (948 Central West, 2,613 Central East)
- 251 cases have pending residence information
- 2,466 cases are considered active and 51,879 cases are considered recovered
- About two-fifths (38.6%) of new cases are in the 20 to 39 years age category
- About one in seven (13.5%) new cases was fully vaccinated
- As of September 2nd, a total of 134 individuals are hospitalized, including 111 inpatient hospitalizations and 23 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 134 patients, 97 (72.4%) were not fully vaccinated.
- One (1) new death reported today. 608 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died, with a case fatality rate of 1.1%
- 1,030,878 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of August 31, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 867,927 tests performed per million population and was lower than the national rate of 1,068,422 tests performed per million population.
- The 7-day average of the new COVID-19 case numbers was 279 (23.1 cases per 100,000)
