
COVID-19 in Sask.: Active cases drop for 12th straight day
CBC
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan has decreased for the 12th day in a row, as the province reported 107 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday.
The province is now reporting 1,829 active COVID-19 cases, less than half the number of cases active in the province at the start of October.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is now 185, or 15.4 new cases per 100,000 people.
The province also reported five more people who had the illness have died, bringing the total provincial death toll from the pandemic to 859.
There are now 222 people in Saskatchewan hospitals with COVID-19 on Tuesday, including 48 patients in intensive care. Twenty-six other COVID-19 patients from Saskatchewan are in ICUs outside the province.
According to the province's online COVID-19 dashboard, less than half of the new cases in those age 12 and up (40.7 per cent) involved people who were fully vaccinated.
The new cases reported Tuesday were located in the following zones:
Location information was pending for nine more cases.
There were 1,529 more COVID-19 tests performed in Saskatchewan since Monday's update.
Meanwhile, 940 more COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the province, including 268 first doses.