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The province continues to see new COVID case totals in the triple digits as three people died from COVID-19.
In its daily update, the Ministry of Health reported that two of the deaths were in the Regina zone with one person being in the 40 to 49 age group and one in the 60 to 69 range. The third death was a person in the 70 to 79 age group from the Saskatoon region.
There were 262 new cases on Saturday, along with 233 recoveries.
The new cases are in the far northwest (14), northwest (27), north-central (20), northeast (two), Saskatoon (49), central-west (2), central-east (16), Regina (71), southwest (15), south-central (13) and southeast (28) regions.
Five new cases are pending a location while two cases have been assigned to the north-central (one) and Regina (one) zones.
There were 205 new variant cases discovered. So far, there have been 6,999 variant cases in Saskatchewan in the Regina (3,777), Saskatoon (794), southeast (727), south-central (523), central-east (308), northwest (215), southwest (197), far northwest (135), north-central (129), central-west (81), northeast (22) and far northeast (three) zones. They are still looking into the location for 88 screened variant cases.
There are 167 people fighting COVID in hospitals across the province. Of those, 38 are in the ICU in the Regina (21), Saskatoon (12), central-east (two), north-central (two) and south-central (one) areas.
Currently there are 2,452 active cases throughout the province.
To date, 773,643 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan with 3,856 COVID-19 of those tests done on Friday.
Vaccination update
An additional 7,403 doses of COVID-19 vaccines were given in the province on Friday. This brings the total number of vaccines given in the province to 435,142.
The 7,403 doses were administered to people living in the far northwest (128), far north-central (30), far northeast (53), northwest (926), north-central (413), northeast (78), Saskatoon (2,088) central-west (540), central-east (761), Regina (1,421), southwest (179), south-central (188), southeast (366).
There were 232 doses administered that don’t have location information at the moment.
For people in Saskatchewan who are 60 or older, far 81 per cent of them have received their first dose, while 62 per cent of those 40 and older have received their first dose.