There are 147 new cases of COVID-19 and 266 recoveries to report in Saskatchewan on May 10, bringing the provincial total to 43,288 cases.
No new deaths are reported today.
South East region saw nine new cases: seven are in Estevan’s Zone 4 and two are in South East Zone 1. After 10 recoveries there are 130 active cases in Estevan’s zone.
The other new cases are located in the following zones: Far North West, 2; North West, 11; North Central, 9; North East, 6; Saskatoon, 43; Central East, 8; Regina, 35; South West, 10; and South Central, 11. Three new cases are pending residence information. Two cases with pending residence information have been assigned to the following zones: North West, 1; and Regina, 1.
Recoveries total 40,645 and 2,141 cases are considered active.
There are 156 people in hospital. One hundred and nineteen people are receiving inpatient care: North West, 8; North Central, 3; North East, 2; Saskatoon, 56; Central East, 3; Regina, 41; South West, 1; South Central, 1; and South East, 4. Thirty-seven people are in intensive care: North Central, 3; Saskatoon, 13; Central East, 2; Regina, 17; South West, 1; and South Central, 1.
The seven-day average of new COVID-19 case number is 204 (16.7 new cases per 100,000). A chart comparing today's average to data collected over the past few months is available at https://dashboard.saskatchewan.ca/health-wellness/covid-19/seven-day-average-of-new-covid-cases.
There were 2,507 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on May 9, 2021.
To date, 802,636 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of May 8, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan's per capita rate was 674,680 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 858,901.
As of May 9, 8,392 variants of concern have been identified by screening in Saskatchewan, reported in the following zones: Far North West, 187; Far North East, 6; North West, 318; North Central, 237; North East, 50; Saskatoon, 1,029; Central West, 90; Central East, 373; Regina, 4,223; South West, 274; South Central, 612; and South East, 863. There are 130 screened VOCs with residence pending.
There are 92 new lineage results reported today. Of the 3,436 VOCs with lineages identified by whole genome sequencing in Saskatchewan, 3,378 are B.1.1.1.7 (UK), 49 are P.1 (Brazilian) and nine are B.1.351 (SA).
Confirmed variant of concern cases may appear in both columns on the website, depending on testing for that case. Adding the cases identified by screening and those that have received whole genome sequencing may result in double-counting individual cases.
Further statistics on the total number of cases among health care workers, breakdowns of total cases by source of infection, age, sex and region, total tests to date, per capita testing rate and current numbers of confirmed variants of concern can be found at http://www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-cases.
Vaccination update
An additional 9,124 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 527,257.
The 9,124 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered to residents living in the following zones: Far North West, 42; Far North Central, 1; Far North East, 9; North West, 519; North Central, 596; North East, 170; Saskatoon, 4,019; Central West, 64; Central East, 953; Regina, 1,280; South West, 292; South Central, 316; and South East, 516. There were 347 doses administered with zone of residence pending.
Seventy-one per cent of those over the age of 40 have received their first dose. Sixty-one per cent of those 30+ have received their first dose. Fifty-one per cent of those 18+ have received their first dose.
All vaccine administration details for the province, including first and second doses, can be found at https://dashboard.saskatchewan.ca/health-wellness. As the source database for vaccine information, Panorama is subject to continuous data updates which may result in revised counts, day over day.
