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Two Saskatchewan residents died due to COVID-19 over the past two weeks.
According to the Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program report issued Friday by the Ministry of Health, one of the deaths was in the 20-to-59 age group and one was in the 60-and-over group.
A total of 2,052 Saskatchewan residents have died due to COVID since March of 2020.
The report said there were 134 COVID cases detected in the province in the week ending last Saturday. That was the lowest total for a seven-day period since the week of Sept. 10-16, when 123 cases were detected.
The COVID test positivity rate in Saskatchewan last week was 7.8 per cent, down from 10.2 per cent a week earlier.
The report said increasing levels of COVID were detected in testing in the Regina, northeast, southwest and south-central reporting areas.
There were four COVID outbreaks reported in high-risk settings over the past two weeks compared to the 15 that were reported in the previous two-week period.
COVID-related hospitalizations dropped to 24 in the week ending last Saturday from 67 in the seven-day period ending Jan. 6.
Influenza
There were 111 flu cases found in lab testing in the province last week, up from 89 in the week ending Jan. 13.
There weren’t any influenza-related deaths reported over the past two weeks.
Hospitalizations due to the flu have decreased to four last week from 30 in the week ending Jan. 6.
As of Saturday, 24.4 per cent of people in Saskatchewan had received a flu shot this season. Overall coverage in the province for those 65 years and over was 59 per cent; for those under 65, the provincial vaccination rate was 17.2 per cent.
RSV and other respiratory viruses
There were 79 lab-confirmed cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) last week, down from 102 the previous week. The test positivity rate for RSV also dropped, going from 8.0 per cent to 6.5 per cent from week to week.
RSV-related hospitalizations increased to 58 for the past 14 days from 48 in the previous two weeks. As well, ICU admissions due to RSV climbed from four to 13 in that same time frame.
The test positivity rate for all other respiratory viruses decreased to 23.7 per cent from 26.1 per cent in the previous week.
