Latest COVID update Jan. 3: No deaths, 3,866 vaccinated, new cases outnumber recoveries

The active COVID case total has risen in Saskatchewan.

After recoveries outnumbered new cases for six straight days, the Ministry of Health’s update Sunday reported 238 new cases and 109 recoveries.

That caused the active case load to rise to 2,841.

The new cases were reported in the Regina (20), far northeast (39), southeast (14), Saskatoon (42), north-central (50), northwest (23), central-east (six), northeast (two), far northwest (17), south-central (13) and southwest (one) regions. There are also 10 new cases where the hometown is unknown.

There are 152 people in Saskatchewan hospitals. That includes 38 in intensive care, with 11 in Saskatoon, 15 in Regina, five in the north-central area, three in the northwest, two in the southwest zone, and one each in the central-east and south-central regions.

Since March, there have 16,023 total cases in the province, 13,084 recoveries and 158 deaths.

There were no new deaths reported Sunday.

The seven-day average of daily new cases is 181.

More progress was made on vaccinations. In the news release, it was revealed that 3,866 doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been delivered so far.

There were 2,103 COVID tests processed Saturday, raising the total test number since the pandemic hit Saskatchewan to 434,157.

Now that the holidays have come and gone, the province has returned to daily COVID updates.