One resident in southern Saskatchewan who tested positive for COVID-19 has died. The individual was in the 80+ age category.
According to information on the provincial government’s website, the person was from the southeast region, although no further information was provided.
There are 283 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Dec. 4, bringing the provincial total to date to 9,527 cases.
Nine new cases are in the southeast region. All nine are in Southeast Zone 1, which is the northeast corner of this region.
There are 16 active cases in Southeast Zone 4, the region that includes Estevan. Out of the 149 active cases in the southeast, 111 are in Zone 1.
The other new cases for the province are located in the far northwest (9), far northeast (11), northwest (12), north central (47), northeast (7), Saskatoon region (50), central west (7), central east (9), Regina region (83), southwest (12) and south central (9). Eighteen new cases have pending residence information.
Two cases with pending residence information have been assigned to the northwest (one from Nov. 15 and one from Nov. 22).
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 262 (21.7 new cases per 100,000 population).
Of the 9,527 reported cases, 4,116, or 43.2 per cent, are considered active.
Another 183 people have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 5,356, or 56.2 per cent of those diagnosed. Three of the recoveries are in the southeast, but none are in Zone 4.
One-hundred and twenty-six people are in hospital. One-hundred and one people are receiving inpatient care: seven in the northwest, 12 in the north central, one in the northeast, 36 in Saskatoon, one in the central east, 20 in Regina, three in the southwest, and 21 in the southeast zones.
Twenty-five people are in intensive care: one in the northwest, four in the north central, 11 in Saskatoon and nine in the Regina zones.
Fifty-five deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
There were 3,504 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on Thursday, including 177 from the southeast.
