There are 412 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Jan. 11, bringing the provincial total to date to 18,522 cases.
Eight Saskatchewan residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died, including one in the 80-plus age group in the South East region. There has also been a death in the 80-plus age group in each of the far north west, north west and central east zones.
One death in the 60-69 age group was reported in each of the Regina and South Central (1) zones. One new death in the 50-59 age group was reported in the North Central zone and one new death in the 30-39 age group was reported in the Regina zone.
There have been 47 new cases reported in the South East region over the last two days. (Data for the South East for Jan. 10 was not released that day). Fourteen of the new cases over the last two days are from South East Zone 4, which includes Estevan.
There are also 11 new cases in South East Zone 1, which is in the northwest corner; 17 in Zone 2, which is north of Zone 4; and five in Zone 3, to the west of Zone 4.
Twenty-nine cases of COVID-19 in South East Zone 4 are considered active, and 238 in the South East region are considered active.
The other new cases are located in the Far North West (33), Far North Central (nine), Far North East (80), North West (102), North Central (95), North East (48), Saskatoon (142), Central West (four), Central East (23), Regina (88), South West (one) and South Central (12) zones. Thirty-five new cases have pending residence information.
The new case numbers are for the last two days. There were 307 new cases reported on Jan. 10.
A total of 14,588 individuals have recovered, with 162 recoveries the past two days, and 3,735 cases are considered active.
One hundred and ninety-seven people are in hospital. One hundred and sixty-six people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (1), Far North Central (1), North West (10), North Central (33), North East (11), Saskatoon (46), Central East (9), Regina (44), South Central (1) and South East (10). The number of hospitalizations in the South East is down one.
Thirty-one people are in intensive care: North West (1), North Central (5), Saskatoon (13), Central East (1), and Regina (11).
There were 3,222 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on Jan. 9 and 2,611 on Jan. 10. There were 334 tests administered in the South East in those two days.
To date, 454,050 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of Jan. 9, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 266,659 people tested per million population. The national rate was 387,986 people tested per million population.
The province is expecting 6,825 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 5,400 doses of the Moderna vaccine to arrive this week; the confirmed date of arrival and distribution locations will be announced this week.
Given the ultra-low temperature requirements of the Pfizer vaccine, the Ministry of Health has received guidance from the manufacturer in order to support broader but still safe distribution. This will permit public health to move to Pfizer vaccine into long-term and personal care homes and clinic locations within the communities where Pzifer is being distributed. This will start in Prince Albert immediately.
As of Jan. 11, a total of 8,948 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Saskatchewan.
Eight hundred and thirty-three of these doses were administered Jan. 10 in Regina (222), Saskatoon (54), Prince Albert (117), the Far North East (234) and North East (206) zones.
This brings the totals to 2,069 doses and 1,230 second doses of Pfizer in the Regina pilot program; 2,847 Pfizer doses in Saskatoon; 613 Pfizer doses in Prince Albert; 596 Moderna doses in the Far North West zone; 134 Moderna doses in the Far North Central zone; 1,071 Moderna doses in the Far North East zone; and 388 Moderna doses in the North East zone.
Note that some vaccinations taking place Jan. 10 in the province’s north may not have been reported yet.
