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Four more people with COVID-19 have died in Saskatchewan moving the pandemic death toll to 134.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is updating the number of COVID related patients in hospital to reflect people no longer considered infectious but who are still being treated for COVID related issues.
It means there are a total of 165 people in the hospital. 125 people who currently have COVID and are considered infectious.
One hundred and four people are receiving inpatient care: two in the Far North West, four in the North West, 18 in the North Central, three in the North East, 40 in the Saskatoon, two in the Central West, four in the Central East, 25 in the Regina, two in the South West and four in the South East zones.
Twenty-one people are in intensive care: one in the North West, six in the North Central, 10 in the Saskatoon, three in the Regina and one in the South West zones.
There are 154 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on December 24, 2020, bringing the provincial total to date to 14,255 cases.
The new cases are located in the Far North West (10), Far North East (14), North West (17), North Central (28), North East (3), Saskatoon (30), Central West (2), Central East (10), Regina (25), South Central (3) and South East (3) zones. Nine (9) new cases have pending residence information.
As of Christmas Eve 3,346 cases are considered active.
On Wednesday 2,394 COVID tests were processed in Saskatchewan.
A total of 1,786 doses of the Pfizer vaccine had been given by Wednesday to health care workers in Regina and Saskatoon as part of the initial pilot and phase one of the vaccine rollout plan.
