Eleven Saskatchewan residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died – the largest one-day increase in the number of deaths among people with COVID-19 in the province since the pandemic began.
Two of the deaths occurred in the southeast: one in the 70-79 age group and one in the 80-plus age group.
There have also been four new deaths in the 80-plus age group from Regina, three in the 80-plus age group from Saskatoon, one in the 60-69 age group from the northeast and one from the 50-59 age group from Saskatoon.
There are 274 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Dec. 12, bringing the provincial total to date to 11,749 cases.
Ten of the new cases are from the southeast region. Southeast Zone 4, which includes Estevan, is the only zone in the region that doesn’t have a new case.
Six new cases are in Zone 2, to the north of Zone 4; three are in Zone 1, to the northwest of Zone 4, and one is in Zone 3, to the west of Zone 4.
There are 160 active cases in the southeast region. Only one case in Zone 4 is currently listed as active. Zone 4 has the fewest number of active cases in the province, and is one of only three in the province with fewer than 10 cases.
There have been 381 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in the southeast since mid-March.
As for the rest of the province, new cases are located in the far northwest (8), far northeast (19), northwest (43), north central (23), northeast (5), Saskatoon region (78), central west (2), central east (13), Regina (57), southwest (2) and south central (12) zones, and two new cases have pending residence information.
Cases with pending residence information were assigned to the far northeast (from Dec. 9) and north central (from Dec. 8).
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 292 (24.1 new cases per 100,000 population).
There are 4,097 cases out of the 11,749 cases that are considered active, or about 34.9 per cent.
Another 713 people are now listed as recovered, which is a one-day record for Saskatchewan. It brings the total number of recoveries to 7,566, or 64.4 per cent of those diagnosed.
It is anticipated that the number of cases designated as “active” will decline as older cases are reviewed and potentially shifted to recovered status. This work is ongoing.
One hundred and eighteen people are in hospital. Ninety-five people are receiving inpatient care: one in the far northwest, seven in the northwest, 11 in the north central, 41 in Saskatoon, two in the central east, 25 in Regina, two in the south central and six in the southeast zones. The number of people in hospital in the southeast is the same as Dec. 11.
Twenty-three people are in intensive care: six in the north central, seven in Saskatoon, nine in Regina, and one in the southwest.
Eighty-six deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date. Nine of them are from the southeast region.
There were 3,622 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on Dec. 11, including 155 from the southeast.
