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Sask. COVID-19 update: 169 new cases, 168 recoveries and two deaths

There are 169 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on March 4, bringing the provincial total to 29,220 cases. Two Saskatchewan residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died.
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There are 169 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on March 4, bringing the provincial total to 29,220 cases.

Two Saskatchewan residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died.  One (1) death was reported in the 70-79 age group from the North East zone, and one (1) death was reported in the 50-59 age group from the South East zone.

There are two new cases in the South East region; both are in Zone 1 to the northwest of the corner. There are still two active cases in Estevan’s Zone 4.

The other new cases are located in the Far North West (27), Far North East (15), North West (10), North Central (9), Saskatoon (46), Central West (4), Central East (5), Regina (41), and South West (1), South Central (3), and South East (2) zones.  Six (6) cases are pending residence information.  Three (3) cases with pending residence information were assigned to the North Central (1) and Regina (2) zones.  Eight (8) cases were found to be out-of-province residents and were removed from the counts.

There are a total of 27,407 recoveries and 1,422 cases are considered active.

One hundred and forty-six (146) people are in hospital.  One hundred and twenty-six (126) people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (3), Far North East (2), North West (11), North Central (14), North East (2), Saskatoon (52), Central West (1), Central East (5), Regina (33), and South East (3).  Twenty people are in intensive care: Saskatoon (10), Central East (1) and Regina (9).

There were 2,991 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on March 3.

To date, 585,820 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of March 3, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan's per capita rate was 491,504 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 649,289 tests performed per million population.

The seven-day average of daily new cases is 148 (12.0 new cases per 100,000).  

Vaccination progress

An additional 2,493 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 84,090.

The 2,493 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered in the following regions: Far North East (11), North East (10), North West (6), North Central (12), Central East (174), South East (188) Saskatoon (951), and Regina (1141).  

Pfizer vaccine shipments have arrived in Prince Albert (4,680) and North Battleford (2,340) and clinics will begin on March 4. 

For a listing of first and second doses in Saskatchewan administered by geographic zone, visit https://www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-vaccine-update.