Three Saskatchewan residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. Two people in the 80-plus age group were from the Saskatoon and Regina zones, while one was in the 50 to 59 age group from North Central. That brings the total number of deaths in the province to 158.
There are 485 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan, as of Jan. 2, 2021. On Jan. 1 there were 275 new cases and on Jan. 2 there were 210 new cases.
The new cases are located in the Far North East (90), Regina (81), Saskatoon (75), North Central (68), North West (51), Central East (32), South East (24), North East (18), South Central (18), Far North West (13), Central West (3), and Far North Central (1) zones.
Thirteen of the new cases in the South Central are located in the South Central 2 sub-zone, which includes Moose Jaw and area.
Eleven new cases have pending residence information.
Ten Saskatchewan residents tested out-of-province have been added to the case counts in the North West (7), Far North East (1), North Central (1), and Regina (1). Thirty-one previously reported cases with pending residence information have been assigned to the North Central (27), Far North East (3), and North West (1) zones.
There are now 15,845 reported cases, including 2,712 active cases.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 176 (14.5 new cases per 100,000 population).
One hundred and sixty people are in hospital. One hundred and twenty-seven people are receiving inpatient care — 36 in Saskatoon, 36 in Regina, 30 in the North Central, nine in the North West, six in the Central East, four in the South East, two in the North East, two in the Far North West, one in the Central West, and one in the South West. Thirty-three people are in intensive care — 14 in Regina, 11 in Saskatoon, three in the North Central, two in the North West, one in Central East, one in South Central, and one in the South West.
Four hundred and seventy-nine more people have recovered, increasing the provincial total to 12,975 recoveries.
As of Jan. 2, 3,722 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine have been provided to health care workers in Regina as part of the initial pilot and in Saskatoon as part of Phase 1.
There were 2,735 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on Dec. 31 and 2,588 on Jan. 1. A total of 432,054 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.
