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Saskatchewan is reporting its highest single-day number of COVID-19-related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
In its latest daily update, the province confirms six residents have died after testing positive for COVID. Five were in the 80-and-over age range, and another was in their 30s.
Three of the deaths were in the Regina zone, with one each in the north-central, northwest and southeast regions.
The death toll due to the the virus in Saskatchewan is now 66. Since Nov. 22, 33 people have died — 20 in the 80-and-over age group, six in the 70-to-79 range, six in the 60-to-69 range and one in their 30s.
Tuesday also marked the highest number of people hospitalized with COVID, with 144 cases. There are 27 in intensive care, located in the Saskatoon (11), Regina (eight), north-central (six), southwest (one) and south-central (one) zones. The other inpatient cases are found in the Saskatoon (51), Regina (23), north central (16), southeast (15), northwest (seven), northeast (2), central east (one), southwest (one), and South Central (one) zones.
Saskatchewan also set a single-day record Tuesday for the number of recoveries seen in the province, with 279 people reportedly overcoming the virus. That makes for a total of 5,868 recoveries to date.
In all, 183 new cases were reported in Tuesday’s update. These new cases were in the Saskatoon (62), north-central (30), Regina (25), northwest (18), far northwest (13), far northeast (10), central-west (seven), northeast (five), central east (four), southwest (four), south-central (one) and southeast (one) zones. Three new cases have not yet had their location confirmed.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 264, or 21.8 per 100,000 population.
The province has now seen a total of 10,597 reported COVID-19 cases, and 4,663 remain active.
More health-care workers have contracted the virus, with 345 confirmed cases to date.
Public health has yet to determine the origin of more than 3,200 cases. There are 4,446 positive cases that have come as a result of community contacts, and 510 have been travellers. Another 2,440 have no known exposures.
