There are 223 new cases of COVID-19 and 232 recoveries to report in Saskatchewan on May 13, bringing the provincial total to 43,926 cases. Thirty cases tested out of province were added to the following zones: Far North West, 5; Far North East, 10; North West, 4; North East, 1; Central West, 1; Central East, 1; Saskatoon, 4; and Regina, 4.
There are five new deaths reported today. One death in the 60-69 age group from the Far North East zone; two deaths in the 70-79 age group from the Far North East and North Central zones; and two deaths from the 80+ age group from the North West and Regina zones.
South East region reported 15 new cases. Estevan’s Zone 4 saw 10 new cases and one recovery and is currently at 134 active cases. The other new cases in the region are located in South East Zone 1 (one), South East Zone 2 (one) and Weyburn’s Zone 3 (three).
The rest of the new cases is located in the following zones: Far North West, 7; Far North East, 9; North West, 15; North Central, 12; North East, 6; Saskatoon, 71; Central West, 8; Central East, 28; Regina, 24; South West, 5; and South Central, 17.Six new cases are pending residence information. One case with pending residence information has been assigned to the North West zone.
Recoveries total 41,381 and 2,032 cases are considered active.
There are 161 people in hospital. One hundred and twenty-six people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West, 1; North West, 5; North Central, 4; Saskatoon, 57; Central East, 4; Regina, 41; South West, 4; South Central, 6; and South East, 4. Thirty-five people are in intensive care: North West, 1; North Central, 1; Saskatoon, 14; Central East, 1; and Regina, 18.
The seven-day average of new COVID-19 case number is 212 (17.3 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 3,415 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on May 11, 2021.
To date, 812,142 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of May 11, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan's per capita rate was 681,974 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 868,331.
As of May 12, 8,782 variants of concern have been identified by screening in Saskatchewan, reported in the following zones: Far North West, 198; Far North East, 8; North West, 346; North Central, 261; North East, 52; Saskatoon, 1,152; Central West, 94; Central East, 409; Regina, 4,299; South West, 285; South Central, 634; and South East, 902. There are 142 screened VOCs with residence pending.
There are one hundred and seventy new lineage results reported today. Of the 3,668 VOCs with lineages identified by whole genome sequencing in Saskatchewan, 3,606 are B.1.1.1.7 (UK), 53 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 8,415 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 545,459.
The 8,415 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered to residents living in the following zones: Far North West, 312; Far North East, 125; North West, 793; North Central, 427; North East, 315; Saskatoon, 1,404; Central West, 468; Central East, 484; Regina, 1,832; South West, 452; South Central, 538; and South East, 983. There were 282 doses administered with zone of residence pending.
Seventy-two per cent of those over the age of 40 have received their first dose. Sixty-two per cent of those 30+ have received their first dose. Fifty-three 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.
