The Government of Saskatchewan announced today that the province has reached the Step Three threshold on the province Re-Opening Roadmap, with 70 per cent of Saskatchewan residents age 18 and older having received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
Step Three will begin on Sunday, July 11. Step Two begins tomorrow on Sunday, June 20.
The majority of public health measures will be lifted in Step Three. The only remaining measures will be restrictions on mass public gatherings, and the mandatory masking order. Both remaining restrictions could be removed as soon as Saskatchewan approaches 70 per cent of residents ages 12 and older having received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
There are 55 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on June 19, 2021.
The new cases are located in the following zones: Saskatoon (12), Regina (12), North West (7), Central East (5), South Central (3), South East (3), Far North West (2), Far North East (2), North East (2), North Central (1), Central West (1), and South West (1).
All three of the new cases in the South Central are located in the South Central 2 sub-zone, which includes Moose Jaw and area.
Four cases are pending residence information.
Eight cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far North West (7) and Regina (1) zones.
There are now 48,381 reported cases, including 760 active cases.
The seven-day average of new COVID-19 case number is 71 (5.8 per 100,000).
There are no additional deaths to report today. The provincial total remains at 562.
As of June 18, 11,930 variants of concern have been identified by screening in Saskatchewan, reported in the following zones: Regina (4,770), Saskatoon (2,066), South East (1,125), South Central (883), North West (770), Central East (640), North Central (613), South West (399), Far North West (290), Central West (144), Far North East (80), North East (79), and Far North Central (1). There are 70 screened VOCs with residence pending.
One hundred and forty-three new lineage results were reported for Variants of Concern today. Of the 6,590 VOCs with lineages identified by whole genome sequencing in Saskatchewan, 6,245 are Alpha (B.1.1.7), 247 are Gamma (P.1), 88 are Delta (B.1.617.2) and 10 are Beta (B.1.351).
As of end of day Friday, June 18, there were an additional 19,737 vaccinations administered. This is a daily record for vaccines administered. The vaccine administration reporting timeline was adjusted to a 24-hour period for a short term in order to provide the most up to date information to support a decision on the ability to move to Step 3 of the Re-Open Roadmap. Vaccination numbers on Saturday June 19 will represent vaccine administration from Friday, June 18. Vaccination numbers on Sunday will provide results from Saturday, June 19.
The additional 19,737 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered to residents living in the following zones: Saskatoon (5,615), Regina (3,535), North West (1,763), North Central (1,760), South Central (1,545), Central East (1,404), South East (1,171), South West (724), Central West (511), Far North East (406), Far North West (405), North East (322), and Far North Central (20). There were 556 doses administered with zone of residence pending.
More information about vaccines is available on the government’s website.
There are 82 people in hospital. Seventy-one people are receiving inpatient care in the following zones: Saskatoon (27), Regina (17), North West (10), North Central (9), South Central (4), Central East (2), Far North West (1), and North East (1). Eleven people are in intensive care: Saskatoon (6), Regina (4), and North Central (1).
Fifty-seven more people have recovered, increasing the provincial total to 47,059 recoveries.
There were 1,802 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on June 18. To date, 899,888 COVID-19 tests have been processed.
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.
