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There were 202 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Saskatchewan on Saturday.
There are now 4,191 active cases throughout the province, bringing the provincial total to date to 9,730 cases.
The Regina area saw the greatest increase in new cases with 51 reported on Saturday. The north-central region has 33 new cases, southwest (21), northwest (18), far northeast (17), southeast (13), northeast (10), central-east (eight), central-west (eight), far northwest (eight), south-central (six) and the Saskatoon region has four. Five new cases are pending location.
The Ministry of Health stressed that the case numbers reported on Saturday from Saskatoon are much lower than anticipated due to a data-related issue that they are working on. The numbers are expected to be updated tomorrow.
One case has been assigned to the northeast (from Oct. 21); nine cases with pending residence information were assigned to the northwest (one from Nov. 23), north-central (seven from Dec. 3), and southeast (one from Nov. 29).
There currently are 116 COVID patients in Saskatchewan hospitals, down from the record high of 132 reported on Wednesday.
There are 91 people receiving inpatient care in the province including nine in the northwest, 10 in the north-central, one in the northeast, 34 in Saskatoon, one in the central-east, 15 in Regina, three in the south-west, and 18 in the south-east zone.
There are 25 people in intensive care throughout the province including five in the north-central region, 11 in Saskatoon and nine in the Regina zones.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 263, which is 21.7 new cases per population of 100,000.
To date, 54 residents of the province have died after contracting COVID. The latest was an individual in the 80-and-over age range on Friday, they had lived in the province’s south zone.
Out of all the cases reported in the province so far, 4,149 are community contacts including mass gatherings, 2,324 have no known exposures, and 2,759 are under investigation by local public health.
