There are 163 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on March 6, bringing the provincial total to 29,593 cases.
Three Saskatchewan residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. All three were from the Saskatoon zone. One death was reported in the 50-59 age group, one death was reported in the 70-79 age group and one death was reported in the 80+ age group.
A total of 396 people with COVID-19 have died in Saskatchewan.
There are four new cases in the South East. Two of them are in South East Zone 4, which includes Estevan.
There is also one new case in South East Zone 3, which includes Weyburn, and one new case in Zone 1, which is northwest of Zone 4.
South East Zone 4 now has three active cases, and there are 22 active cases in the South East.
The other new cases in Saskatchewan are located in the Far North West (4), Far North East (14), North West (10), North Central (20), North East (3), Saskatoon (34), Central West (1), Central East (12), Regina (58) and South West (1) zones. Two cases are pending residence information.
Twelve cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far North West (5), North West (1), North Central (3) and Regina (3) zones. Two cases were found to be out-of-province residents and were removed from the counts.
Fifty-two more people are now listed as recovered, including one more in the South East. There has been a total of 27,584 recoveries.
A total of 1,613 cases are considered active.
One hundred and forty-two (142) people are in hospital. One hundred and twenty (120) people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (3), Far North East (1), North West (10), North Central (8), North East (1), Saskatoon (57), Central East (3), Regina (35) and South East (2). The number of people in hospital in the South East is the same as March 5.
Twenty-two people are in intensive care: North Central (2), Saskatoon (10), Central East (1) and Regina (9).
There were 2,744 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on March 5, 2021.
To date, 591,853 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of March 4, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan's per capita rate was 496,237 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 656,193 tests performed per million population.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 155 (12.7 new cases per 100,000). A chart comparing today's 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.
An additional 3,577 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 90,456.
The 3,577 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported were administered in the following regions: North West (821), North Central (967), Saskatoon (909), Central East (44), Regina (826) and South East (10).
For a listing of first and second doses in Saskatchewan administered by geographic zone, visit https://www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-vaccine-update.
