There are 36 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on June 22, 2021.
The new cases are located in the following zones: Regina (11), Saskatoon (9), South East (6), Far North East (3), North West (2), North Central (2), and South Central (1).
Two cases are pending residence information.
Twenty-one cases were deemed out-of-province residents and removed from the following zones: Saskatoon (4), Regina (3), North West (2), South West (2), Far North East (1), North Central (1), South Central (1), and seven pending residence information.
Two previously reported cases pending residence information have been assigned to the North West and Regina zones.
There are now 48,505 reported cases, including 639 active cases.
The seven-day average of new COVID-19 case number is 67 (5.4 per 100,000).
There are no additional deaths to report today. The provincial total remains at 565.
As of June 21, 11,998 variants of concern have been identified by screening in Saskatchewan, reported in the following zones: Regina (4,775), Saskatoon (2,084), South East (1,130), South Central (887), North West (780), Central East (641), North Central (618), South West (399), Far North West (297), Central West (145), Far North East (83), North East (79), and Far North Central (1). There are 79 screened VOCs with residence pending.
There are 89 new lineage results were reported for Variants of Concern today. Of the 6,903 VOCs with lineages identified by whole genome sequencing in Saskatchewan, 6,475 are Alpha (B.1.1.7), 293 are Gamma (P.1), 125 are Delta (B.1.617.2) and 10 are Beta (B.1.351).
An additional 6,496 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 1,005,275.
The additional 6,496 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered to residents living in the following zones: Saskatoon (2,574), Regina (861), Central East (707), North West (482), North Central (451), South East (394), North East (340), South West (226), Far North East (89), South Central (81), Central West (67), and Far North West (26). There were 198 doses administered with zone of residence pending.
More information about vaccines is available on the government’s website.
There are 79 people in hospital. Sixty-seven people are receiving inpatient care in the following zones: Saskatoon (31), Regina (14), North Central (8), North West (7), Central East (3), South Central (3), and Far North West (1). Twelve people are in intensive care in the following zones: Regina (5), Saskatoon (4), and North Central (3).
Eighty-seven more people have recovered, increasing the provincial total to 47,301 recoveries.
There were 1,270 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on June 21. To date, 904,060 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan.
For more information, visit www.saskatchewan.ca/COVID19. You can find the maps and the breakdown of cases by region on the government's website.
