COVID-19 death toll rises over 750 with 79 in Saskatchewan ICUs
Global News
There are 425 new COVID-19 infections in Saskatchewan as of Monday, according to health officials.
For the 37th day in a row, Saskatchewan’s COVID-19 death toll has risen.
The four recently deceased people who tested positive for the virus include one person in the 80-plus and three in the 60 to 79 age group. There have now been 751 COVID-19-related deaths in the province.
According to the Saskatchewan government’s dashboard, there were 425 new cases, bringing the overall infection total in Saskatchewan to 72,458. The seven-day average of new daily infections deceased to 483 from 486 on Oct. 10.
The province’s active infections have decreased and now sit at 4,658. The Saskatoon zone leads the province with 1,109.
Saskatchewan’s hospitals are currently providing care for 347 patients with COVID-19: 268 are receiving inpatient care and 79 are in ICUs. This is same amount of people in ICU as yesterday and the most to date.
The number of recoveries from the virus has grown by 466 to a total of 67,049.
According to the dashboard, 2,995 COVID-19 tests were performed on Oct. 10. To date, 1,175,318 tests have been carried out in the province.
A total of 1,603,536 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Saskatchewan, the dashboard showed. Of Monday’s 425 new cases, the provincial government said 354 were unvaccinated, which included 90 ineligible children under the age of 12.
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