There is one new death to report today in the 70 to 79 age group from the North West zone.
That brings the total number of deaths in the province to 562.
There are 98 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on June 18, 2021.
The new cases are located in the following zones: Regina (25), North Central (19), Saskatoon (12), North West (9), Central West (8), Central East (8), South Central (4), South East (4), North East (2), and Far North West (1).
All four of the new cases in the South Central are located in the South Central 2 sub-zone, which includes Moose Jaw and area.
Six cases are pending residence information.
Two cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far North West (1) and Far North East (1) zones.
Nine cases tested out-of-province were added to the Far North East (3), Regina (3), North West (1), Saskatoon (1), and Central East (1).
There are now 48,327 reported cases, including 763 active cases.
The seven-day average of new COVID-19 case number is 78 (6.4 per 100,000).
As of June 17, 11,904 variants of concern have been identified by screening in Saskatchewan, reported in the following zones: Regina (4,764), Saskatoon (2,066), South East (1,120), South Central (877), North West (762), Central East (640), North Central (612), South West (399), Far North West (291), Central West (143), Far North East (80), North East (79), and Far North Central (1). There are 70 screened VOCs with residence pending.
Four new lineage results were reported for Variants of Concern today. Of the 6,447 VOCs with lineages identified by whole genome sequencing in Saskatchewan, 6,136 are Alpha (B.1.1.7), 231 are Gamma (P.1), 70 are Delta (B.1.617.2) and 10 are Beta (B.1.351).
As of end of day Thursday, June 17, there were an additional 24,260 vaccinations administered. This represents two days of vaccine administration (Wednesday June 16 and Thursday June 17).
According to the government, vaccine reporting numbers have routinely been reported over a 48-hour period in order to ensure complete vaccine administration data/information and therefore represents vaccinations from two days previous. 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 24,260 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered to residents living in the following zones: Regina (7,296), Saskatoon (5,106), Central East (2,123), North Central (1,921), North West (1,821), South East (1,475), South Central (1,100), North East (809), Central West (638), South West (612), Far North East (421), Far North West (182), and Far North Central (3). There were 753 doses administered with zone of residence pending.
More information about vaccines is available on the government’s website.
There are 81 people in hospital. Seventy-one people are receiving inpatient care in the following zones: Saskatoon (26), Regina (20), North West (10), North Central (8), South Central (4), Central East (2), and Far North West (1). Ten people are in intensive care in the following zones: Saskatoon (6), Regina (3), and North Central (1).
Ninety-five more people have recovered, increasing the provincial total to 47,002 recoveries.
There were 2,455 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on June 17. To date, 898,086 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.
