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The number of COVID-related hospitalizations in Saskatchewan has fallen below 300 for the first time since late January.
According to the weekly epidemiology report issued Thursday by the Ministry of Health, there were 299 people with COVID in Saskatchewan hospitals as of Wednesday.
That’s the lowest that number has been since Jan. 25, when it was 291.
The number of COVID hospitalizations dropped from the 336 reported last week. Intensive care admissions also dropped from the previous week, from 24 to 18.
The total reported Thursday included 134 COVID-related illnesses, 156 incidental cases and nine that were unknown.
However, the number of deaths reported this week rose to 28 from the 13 announced last week.
The Regina region and the north-central area each recorded six deaths. There also were five fatalities reported in the central-east zone, three in the Saskatoon region, two in each of the northeastern, central-west and southeast zones, and one in each of the far northeast and northwest areas.
There were 19 deaths reported in the 80-and-over age group, four in the 40-to-59 age range, two in each of the 60-to-69 and 70-to-79 age groups, and one between the ages of 20 and 39.
As of Saturday, 1,179 Saskatchewan residents had died due to COVID since the start of the pandemic.
A look at the numbers
There were 832 new COVID cases confirmed by testing in the province over the week ending Saturday.
The cases were reported in the Saskatoon (229), Regina (137), central-east (77), southeast (65), south-central (59), northwest (51), northeast (47), north-central (46), central-west (26), southwest (26), far northwest (10) and far northeast (10) zones. The hometowns of 49 cases were pending.
The total number of cases fell from the 1,013 reported a week earlier.
There were 350 new cases involving variants of concern identified by whole genome sequencing, with 99.7 per cent of them Omicron.
The number of outbreaks in long-term and personal care homes dropped to 10 from the 18 reported the week before. The latest total comprised six outbreaks in long-term care homes and four in personal care homes.
As of Saturday, 85.6 per cent of people aged five and over in the province had received at least one dose of a two-dose COVID vaccine and 80.5 per cent had completed their series. Among those 18 and over in Saskatchewan, 51 per cent had received at least one booster shot.