There are 153 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Feb. 26, bringing the provincial total to 28,344 cases.
None of the new cases are located in the South East region. There are 24 active cases in the South East, including two in South East Zone 4, which includes Estevan.
There also aren’t any new deaths to report among people with COVID.
The new cases are located in the Far North West (31), Far North East (8), North West (11), North Central (5), North East (3), Saskatoon (18), Central West (1), Central East (17), Regina (50) and South Central (5) zones, while four cases are pending residence information.
Another 136 people are considered to be recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 26,454. One of the new recoveries is from the South East.
A total of 1,510 cases are considered active.
One hundred and fifty-five people are in hospital. One hundred and thirty-nine people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (5), Far North Central (1), Far North East (2), North West (12), North Central (13), North East (1), Saskatoon (54), Central West (1), Central East (8), Regina (36), South Central (2) and South East (4). The number of people in hospital in the South East is the same as Feb. 25.
Sixteen people are in intensive care: North West (2), North Central (1), Saskatoon (7) and Regina (6).
There were 3,079 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on Feb. 25, including 98 in the South East.
To date, 571,393 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of Feb. 24, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan's per capita rate was 478,751 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 632,285 tests performed per million population.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 156 (12.8 new cases per 100,000). A chart comparing the Feb. 26 average to data collected over the past several months is available on the Government of Saskatchewan website.
Further statistics on the total number of cases among healthcare workers, breakdowns of total cases by source of infection, age, sex and region, total tests to date and the per capita testing rate can be found on the Government of Saskatchewan website as well.
There were 3,545 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered Feb. 25 in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 69,451.
The 3,545 doses were administered in the Saskatoon (330), Regina (610), North Central (205), North West (1,051), Central East (11), Central West (560), South East (191) and South West (587) zones.
On Feb. 24, an additional 91 doses were administered in the South East zone, an additional 515 doses were administered in the South West zone, an additional 81 doses were administered in the Central West zone and an additional 10 doses were administered in the Far North West zone.
A data correction saw 93 doses removed from the Regina zone and 134 doses removed from the South Central zone.
