Latest COVID update Sept. 26: Cases continue to climb, 3 deaths

COVID cases continue to climb in Saskatchewan.

In its daily update Sunday, the Ministry of Health reported 552 new cases of the virus. There were also three deaths reported.

Hospitalizations have gone down slightly. A seven-day streak of setting record-high numbers of COVID patients in hospital was broken, as 281 hospitalizations were reported. That’s down from 282 Saturday.

According to the Ministry of Health:

• As of September 26th, there are 552 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 65,501 reported cases.
• The new cases are located in the Far North West (21), Far North East (19), North West (77), North Central (38), North East (16), Saskatoon (124), Central West (17), Central East (36), Regina (64), South West (33), South Central (36) and South East (36) zones, and thirty-five (35) new cases have pending residence information.
• Thirty (30) cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far North West (from September 24 (2)), Far North East (from September 24 (1)), North West (from September 21 (1), September 24 (3)), North Central (from September 23 (2), September 24 (6)), Saskatoon (from September 24 (2)), Regina (from September 22 (1), September 23 (3) September 24 (4)), South West (from September 20 (1), September 24 (1)), South Central (from September 20 (1)), and South East (from September 16 (1), September 23 (1)) zones.
• One (1) SK resident tested out-of-province was added to the Saskatoon (from September 24 (1)) case count.
• One (1) SK resident was deemed to be a non-SK resident and removed from the Central East (from September 24 (1)) case count.
• 65,501 cases are confirmed.
  • 15,796 cases are from the North area (6,743 North West, 6,639 North Central, 2,414 North East).
  • 15,781 cases are from the Saskatoon area
  • 13,408 cases are from the Regina area
  • 8,028 cases are from the Far North area (3,756 Far North West, 531 Far North Central, 3,741 Far North East)
  • 7,692 cases are from the South area (1,652 South West, 2,429 South Central, 3,611 South East)
  • 4,284 cases are from the Central area (1,192 Central West, 3,092 Central East)
  • 512 cases have pending residence information
• 4,864 cases are considered active and 59,967 cases are considered recovered.
• More than one-quarter (27.5%) of new cases are in the age category of 20 to 39 years.
• One in five (19.8%) of new cases eligible for vaccination (aged 12 years and older) were fully vaccinated.
• As of September 26th, a total of 281 individuals are hospitalized; including 218 inpatient hospitalizations and 63 ICU hospitalizations. Of the 281 patients, 222 (79.0%) were not fully vaccinated.
• Three (3) new deaths reported today. 670 Saskatchewan residents with COVID-19 have died with a case fatality rate of 1.0%.
• 1,118,042 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of September 23rd, when other provincial and national numbers are available from PHAC, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 937,394 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 1,123,656 tests performed per million population.
• The 7-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers was 478 (39.7 new cases per 100,000).