The Ministry of Health’s daily COVID-19 report showed a similar number of new cases and recoveries in the province for Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
As of January 2, 3,722 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine have been provided to health care workers in Regina as part of the initial pilot and in Saskatoon as part of Phase 1. With the arrival of 4,900 doses of Moderna vaccine, the Far North Central and Far North West regions will start vaccinating priority populations the week of Jan. 4.
There are 485 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on January 2, 2021, bringing the provincial total to date to 15,845 cases. On Jan. 1, there were 275 new cases and on Jan. 2, there were 210 new cases.
Three Saskatchewan residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. Two in the 80+ age group were from the Saskatoon and Regina zones and one in the 50-59 age group from North Central.
Twenty-four new cases are from the South East region, but none are from South East Zone 4, which includes Estevan.
Eight cases are from Zone 3, which is to the west of Zone 4; four are from Zone 2, which is to the north of Zone 4, and 12 are from Zone 1, to the northwest of Zone 4.
There are currently six active cases for Zone 4, and 139 for the southeast.
A total of 510 people from the southeast have tested positive since mid-March.
The other new cases for Saskatchewan are located in the Far North West (13), Far North Central (1), Far North East (90), North West (51), North Central (68), North East (18), Saskatoon (75), Central West (3), Central East (32), Regina (81) and South Central (18) zones. Eleven new cases have pending location information.
Another 479 people have recovered, including three from the South East, bringing the total number of recoveries to 12,975. A total of 2,712 cases are considered active.
One hundred and sixty people are in hospital. One hundred and twenty-seven people are receiving inpatient care: two in the Far North West, nine in the North West; 30 in the North Central; two in the North East; 36 in the Saskatoon; one in the Central West; six in the Central East; 36 in the Regina; one in the South West; and four in the South East zones.
Thirty-three people are in intensive care: two in the North West; three in the North Central; 11 in the Saskatoon; one in Central East; 14 in Regina; one in South Central and one in the South West zones.
There were 2,735 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on Dec. 31 and 2,588 on Jan. 1.
A total of 392 tests occurred in the southeast between Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 176 (14.5 new cases per 100,000 population).
