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Saskatchewan is inching closer to the level of vaccinations required to start the clock on Step One of the Re-Opening Roadmap.
There were 13,042 COVID-19 vaccinations done in the province in the latest reporting period, pushing the percentage of Saskatchewan residents aged 40 and over who have received their first doses to 69.6 per cent.
According to the government’s reopening plan, Step One will start three weeks after the percentage reaches 70 per cent, and vaccine eligibility reaches those 18 and over.
The Ministry of Health also reported Saturday there were 269 new cases of COVID, 215 recoveries and 198 cases of variants of concern identified by screening. There weren’t any deaths reported.
Vaccinations
The latest round of shots pushed the provincial total to date to 504,482.
The most-recent doses were administered in the Regina (4,245), Saskatoon (2,782), southeast (1,242), central-east (1,189), north-central (776), south-central (515), northwest (514), southwest (506), northeast (286), far northwest (244), far northeast (181), central-west (138) and far north-central (seven) zones.
The hometowns of 417 people who received doses are still being determined.
According to the government, Saskatchewan is to receive 63,180 doses of the Pfizer vaccine next week.
Some are to be distributed to pharmacies that are participating in a pilot vaccination project (31,590) and to clinics in Regina (10,530), Saskatoon (8,190), North Battleford (2,340) and Prince Albert (1,170).
Other doses are destined for Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) North (2,340), ISC South (2,340), ISC North Battleford (1,170), and Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) Prince Albert (3,510).
A look at the numbers
The 269 new cases raised the province’s total to date to 42,964.
The latest cases were reported in the Saskatoon (73), Regina (51), southeast (31), northwest (25), north-central (23), central-east (22), south-central (14), far northwest (11), southwest (10), northeast (three) and central-west (one) zones.
Five other cases are pending residence information.
The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases is 222, or 18.1 new cases per 100,000 population.
So far, 8,103 cases of variants have been identified by screening in Saskatchewan, with nearly half of those — 4,155 — recorded in the Regina area.
Of the 3,114 variant cases with lineages identified by whole genome sequencing so far in Saskatchewan, 3,064 are the U.K. variant, 41 are the Brazilian strain and nine are the South African mutation.
The recoveries reported Saturday hiked that total so far to 40,169. There are 2,293 active cases, with 580 in the Regina region and 520 in the Saskatoon area.
There are 168 people in Saskatchewan hospitals due to COVID, including 42 in intensive care units. Those patients are in the Regina (20), Saskatoon (15), north-central (three), central-east (two), southwest (one) and south-central (one) zones.
The 15 ICU cases in Saskatoon are the most in that city since there were 15 on March 17.
The 62 total hospitalizations in the Regina region are the fewest since March 24, when there 57 people in hospital in the area.
The 3,803 COVID tests done on Friday increased the provincial total so far to 797,074.