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The death toll in Saskatchewan due to COVID-19 rose to 285 on Thursday, when the provincial government announced the deaths of 11 residents.
Six people in the 80-and-over age group — four from the Regina zone and two from the Saskatoon area — were among those who passed away.
Two people in their 60s (one from the north-central zone, one from the Saskatoon area), two individuals in their 70s (one from each of the far northeast and northwest zones) and one person in their 40s (from the far northeast zone) also died.
The Ministry of Health reported there were 244 new cases, increasing the provincial total since March to 23,038.
The new cases were reported in the Saskatoon (70), Regina (54), far northwest (25), northwest (20), southeast (16), far northeast (14), north-central (13), central-east (10), far north-central (seven), northeast (six), central-west (five) and south-central (four) zones.
The seven-day average of new cases is 244, or 19.9 per 100,000 population.
There were 282 recoveries reported, increasing that total so far to 20,275. The number of active cases in the province stands at 2,478.
The 208 hospitalizations due to COVID in Saskatchewan included 37 people in intensive care. Those cases are in the Saskatoon (18), Regina (12), northwest (three), north-central (two), central-east (one) and southwest (one) zones.
The 171 people receiving inpatient care in the province included 66 in the Saskatoon area, 38 in the Regina region and 27 in the north-central zone.
The 2,575 COVID tests processed in Saskatchewan on Wednesday increased the province’s total so far to 500,043.
Saskatchewan didn’t get any shipments of COVID vaccine this week due to production slowdowns, but it continues to get some doses out of the vials it has received. It administered 118 shots on Wednesday to increase the total to date to 34,672.
Those vaccinations were done in the central-east (55), southeast (30), northwest (12), north-central (11) and far north-central (10) areas.
The province is expecting 5,850 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to arrive next week, with the shipment to be divided between the Lloydminster, Spiritwood, Saskatoon, Regina, Swift Current and Moosomin areas.
Those doses are destined for people in what the province calls “priority populations.”