There are 180 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Feb. 10, bringing the provincial total to date to 25,843 cases.
Two Saskatchewan residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. The deaths were reported in the Saskatoon zone. One individual was in the 70-79 age group and one was in the 80+ age group.
A total of 348 people with COVID-19 in Saskatchewan have died since March 2020.
Four new cases are located in the South East region. None of them are in South East Zone 4, which includes Estevan. One new case is in Zone 3, which includes Weyburn, two are in Zone 2, to the north of Zone 4, and one is in Zone 1, to the northwest of Zone 4.
There are six active cases in Zone 4, which is down two from Feb. 9, and 93 in the South East region.
The other new cases in Saskatchewan are located in the Far North West (22), Far North Central (1), Far North East (3), North West (17), North Central (19), North East (2), Saskatoon (43), Central West (1), Central East (5), Regina (58) and South Central (1) zones. Four (4) cases have pending residence information.
Another 245 people are now listed as recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 23,527. Ten new recoveries are from the South East. There are 1,968 active cases in Saskatchewan.
One hundred and ninety-six people are in hospital. One hundred and sixty-eight people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (5), Far North East (1), North West (19), North Central (24), North East (1), Saskatoon (59), Central East (10), Regina (45), South Central (1) and South East (3). The number of people in hospital in the South East is the same as Feb. 9.
Twenty-eight (28) people are in intensive care: North West (2), North Central (2), Saskatoon (10), Central East (3), Regina (10) and South West (1).
There were 2,353 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on Feb. 9, including 210 from the South East.
To date, 533,179 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of Feb. 8, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan's per capita rate was 450,357 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 589,461 tests performed per million population.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 201 (16.4 new cases per 100,000 population) and is now available on the Government of Saskatchewan website.
There were 638 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered on Feb. 9 in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 45,371. With this, 102 per cent of the doses received have been administered to date. This overage is due to efficiencies in drawing extra doses from vials of vaccine received.
The 638 doses were administered in the following zones: Far North West (256), Far North Central (23), Far North East (208), North East (67), North Central (46), and Saskatoon (38). Data corrections have found an additional 212 doses in the Central West zone administered on Feb. 6 and 8.
Locations that received vaccine from the 5,850 Pfizer doses received last week are nearing completion. The next Pfizer shipment of 1,950 doses is expected to arrive on Thursday, February 11 in Prince Albert.
