COVID-19 in Sask.: Record-setting 81 patients in ICU as of Saturday
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Saskatchewan is reporting 411 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, as well as three more deaths from the illness.
That brings the total provincial death toll from the pandemic to 776 — up from 630 one month ago.
According to the province's online COVID-19 dashboard, nearly a third of the new cases reported Saturday (29.9 per cent) were in children under the age of 12, who are not eligible to be vaccinated.
Of the new cases involving those 12 and up, over 70 per cent were people who are not fully vaccinated.
The province is now reporting 4,297 active COVID-19 cases.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is now 367, or 30.4 new cases per 100,000 people. That number has been dropping since Oct. 12, when the seven-day average was 487.
Saskatchewan reported 327 people in hospital with COVID-19 on Saturday, including a record-breaking 81 patients in intensive care. Of the 327 patients, just under 75 per cent were not fully vaccinated, the province's dashboard says.
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