An additional 1,624 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Saskatchewan, surpassing the 100,000 vaccination milestone and bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 100,195.
There were 152 vaccines in the South East. The remaining doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered in the following regions: North West (237), North Central (298), Saskatoon (474), Central East (63), Regina (400) and South East (152).
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For a listing of first and second doses in Saskatchewan administered by geographic zone, visit https://www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-vaccine-update.
There are 153 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on March 13, bringing the provincial total to 30,522 cases.
One Saskatchewan resident who tested positive for COVID-19 has died. The death was reported in the 70-79 age group in the Saskatoon zone.
There is a discrepancy in the number of new cases for the South East region from the provincial government. The provincial news release says there are five new cases, but the COVID dashboard says there are three. The dashboard says there are no new cases for South East Zone 4, which includes Estevan, but the number of active cases for Zone 4 is now listed as seven, which is up by two from March 12. That would explain the discrepency.
There are two new cases in South East Zone 2, which is north of Zone 4, and one new case in Zone 1, which is northwest of Zone 4.
Thirty-five cases in the South East are now considered active.
The new cases in the rest of the province are located in the Far North West (2), Far North Central (5), Far North East (8), North West (9), North Central (4), North East (7), Saskatoon (16), Central East (13), Regina (64), South West (1) and South Central (14) zones. Five new cases are pending residence information. Three cases with pending residence information were assigned to the North West zone.
Another 120 people have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 28,648.
A total of 1,469 cases are considered active.
One hundred thirty-three people are in hospital. One hundred and three people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (2), Far North East (1), North West (9), North Central (6), Saskatoon (45), Central East (4), Regina (32), South Central (2) and South East (2). The number of people in hospital in the South East is the same as March 12.
Thirty people are in intensive care: North West (1), North Central (1), Saskatoon (14), Central East (2) and Regina (12).
There were 2,859 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on March 12, including 107 in the South East.
To date, 608,841 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of March 11, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 510,806 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 675,272 tests performed per million population.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 133 (10.9 new cases per 100,000), the lowest seven-day average since November 13.
Further statistics on the total number of cases among healthcare workers, breakdowns of total cases by source of infection, age, sex and region, total tests to date, the per capita testing rate and current numbers of variants of concern can be found on the Government of Saskatchewan website.
