COVID-19 in Sask.: Active cases lowest since Sept. 1, Canadian Armed Forces nurses begin work
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The number of known active COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan continued to drop on Friday, with the province reporting 2,364. The figure hasn't been that low since the end of August, when the province reported 2,204 known active cases.
Meanwhile, the 14 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) health workers requested by the province to help alleviate the strain on Saskatchewan's COVID-19 plagued health-care system are now all on the job.
In an update earlier this week, CAF said six critical care nurses deployed to Saskatchewan were set to begin work on Thursday, and four non-ICU nurses and four technicians were expected to be in place by Friday.
All the CAF health-care workers are deployed at the Regina General Hospital.
"This is done to ensure our members go to the locations where they can be of the most benefit," wrote Capt. Bonnie Wilken, public affairs officer for the armed forces' Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC), in an email on Thursday.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Saskatchewan also dropped by 22 to 238 on Friday. That statistic hasn't been that low since mid-September.
The number COVID-19 patients in the ICU also dropped. There are now 54 COVID patients receiving intensive care in the province.
That's in addition to the 22 ICU patients who have now been transported to Ontario where they will receive treatment.
Another six are scheduled to have been tranferred as of Sunday.
In general, COVID data points throughout the province continued to trend down on Friday.
The province's seven-day rolling average dropped to 209.
The province reported 2,540 tests being completed on Friday, a drop from the 2,912 tests reported the day before.
Test positivity remained at a seven-day rolling average of nine per cent.
The province reported 238 news cases on Friday.
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