There are 211 new cases of COVID-19 and 142 recoveries to report in Saskatchewan on Feb. 25, bringing the provincial total to 28,191 cases.
One Saskatchewan resident who tested positive for COVID-19 has died. The death was reported in the 80+ age group from the North West zone.
There are four new cases in South East region, all in Zone 1 to the northwest of the corner. There are two active cases in Estevan’s Zone 4.
The other new cases are located in the Far North West (24), Far North Central (6), Far North East (3), North West (16), North Central (5), North East (3), Saskatoon (37), Central West (5), Central East (13), Regina (80), South West (1) and South Central (7) zones and seven (7) cases have pending residence information. Seven cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far North East (2), North Central (3) and Regina (2) zones.
There are a total of 26,318 recoveries and 1,493 cases are considered active.
One hundred and fifty-six (156) people are in hospital. One hundred and thirty-eight (138) people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (5), Far North Central (1), Far North East (2), North West (11), North Central (13), North East (1), Saskatoon (52), Central West (1), Central East (7), Regina (38), South Central (3) and South East (4). Eighteen (18) people are in intensive care: North West (2), North Central (1), Saskatoon (9) and Regina (6).
There were 3,104 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on Feb. 24.
To date, 568,314 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of Feb. 23, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan's per capita rate was 476,923 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 630,137 tests performed per million population.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 155 (12.7 new cases per 100,000).
Vaccine Delivery
There were 2,057 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered yesterday in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 65,436.
The 2,057 doses were administered in the Far North Central (30), North West (6), North East (10), Saskatoon (351), Central East (13), Regina (1,197), South Central (134) and South East (316) zones. On February 23, an additional 16 doses were administered in the Far North West zone and an additional 18 doses were administered in the Central East zone.
As of yesterday, 85 per cent of long-term care residents have received their first dose and 49 per cent have received both their first and second doses and are now fully vaccinated.
For a listing of first and second doses in Saskatchewan administered by geographic zone, visit https://www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-vaccine-update.
