Murray Wood: Who's hot and who's not
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look at the big news stories and decides who's hot... and who's not. This week's list ...
There was no new data on COVID vaccinations in Saskatchewan this Easter Sunday.
The Ministry of Health reported in its daily update that it will launch a new web page with data on vaccines by age range Monday.
In preparation, they did not report Sunday’s vaccination numbers. Those will be included in Monday’s update.
The update also reported three new COVID related deaths in the province: two people in the 50-59 age group in Regina and one person who was 80 or older in the southeast zone. Those deaths raise the province’s total to 439.
Active cases rose once again. There were 221 new cases and 165 recoveries reported, leaving the active case load at 2,196.
The new cases were reported in the Regina (112), Saskatoon (27), southeast (26), south-central (15), central-east (13), far northeast (seven), northwest (seven), northeast (six) and north-central (three) areas. The location for one new case is still under investigation, while one previously reported case has been assigned to the north-central zone.
The seven-day average of daily new cases now stands at 216, or 17.6 cases per 100,000 people.
There were 141 new cases of variants discovered in Saskatchewan. So far, there have been 2,367 variants throughout the Regina (1,626), south-central (180), southeast (167), Saskatoon (134), central-east (33), north-central (18), southwest (seven), far northeast (four) and northwest (two) regions. The location of 184 variant cases is still under investigation.
There are 194 people in the hospital, which includes 150 individuals receiving inpatient care in the far northeast (one), northwest (ten), north-central (two), Saskatoon (45), central-east (12), Regina (69), central-west (one), south-central (one) and southeast (eight).
The other 44 are in intensive care in the north-central (two), Saskatoon (10), central-east (two), Regina (27) and south-central (three) zones.
A shipment of the Moderna vaccine has also arrived in the province. The 7,200 doses have been distributed to the far northwest, far northeast, northeast and southeast zones. Another 14,100 Moderna doses are expected to arrive April 7.
