COVID-19 in Sask.: As ICU numbers spike, province sees 3rd-deadliest day of pandemic
CBC
Saskatchewan health officials reported 12 new COVID-19-related deaths on Friday, making it the third-deadliest day the province has seen since the start of the pandemic.
The Regina and northwest zones each saw four deaths, while the Saskatoon, southwest, southeast and south central regions posted one each.
The number of patients in intensive care with the illness also climbed on Friday, increasing to 80 from 76 the day before.
As of 1:30 p.m. Friday, six ICU patients had been transferred to Ontario, the province said.
Health officials also listed another 228 people with COVID-19 as receiving inpatient care, according to the province's online dashboard.
Out of the 308 people hospitalized with the illness in Saskatchewan Friday, 73 per cent were not fully vaccinated, the province said.
Another 300 COVID-19 cases were also reported Friday — roughly one-third of them in kids 11 and under, according to the dashboard.
The Saskatoon area saw the most new positive tests, at 78, followed by the southeast region (which includes Weyburn and Estevan) at 43 and the Regina zone at 38.
Other COVID-19 cases per region:
Residence information was pending for 22 cases.
There were 3,135 COVID-19 cases considered active in Saskatchewan, as of Friday.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases sat at 312 per day, or 25.9 new cases per 100,000 people.
Health officials also said Friday another 4,216 COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered. Roughly 78 per cent of people eligible for vaccination (those 12 and older) in the province are now fully vaccinated, according to CBC's vaccination tracker.
Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Gary Anandasangaree has formally apologized to Inuit in Nunavik for the federal government's role in the mass killing of sled dogs in the region in the 1950s and 1960s.
High winds and rain caused power outages to hundreds of homes and businesses in Prince County on Saturday.
Northerners will soon see RCMP officers with cameras on their person, as training for the body-worn cameras roll out for Mounties across the country.
Dozens of Indigenous women with a desire to learn how to hunt and to use traditional methods to prepare the animal will meet this weekend for the first-ever all-female deer hunt on Oneida Nation of the Thames territory.
A disgraced real-estate lawyer who this week admitted to pilfering millions in client money to support her and her family's lavish lifestyle was handcuffed in a Toronto courtroom Friday afternoon and marched out by a constable to serve a 20-day sentence for contempt of court, as her husband and mother watched.
A provincial child-care advocacy group says governments need to commit to pushing $10-a-day child care forward in Canada, but a conservative think tank says data shows it isn't working as intended in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Diane Sims has already written her own obituary.
Thirty years after her murder in 1994, Halifax police are still looking for Kimber Leanne Lucas's killer.
When Kevin Campbell took a 1991 Chevy truck in trade at his dealership on Moncton's Salisbury Road in early November, he didn't have it for long.
Quebec mayor says 'one-size-fits-all' language law isn't right for his town where French is thriving
English is not Daniel Côté's first language but he says it's integral to the town he calls home.
As their role in health care continues to grow, nurse practitioners across Canada are looking to Alberta, where nurse practitioners recently formed their own union — but on P.E.I., the nurses' union that represents them says it's doing its job.