An additional 736 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 93,512.

The 736 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered in the following regions: North West (479), North Central (165) and Saskatoon (92).

COVID-19 Update

One Saskatchewan resident who tested positive for COVID-19 has died. This death was reported in the 50-59 age group from the North West zone.

There are 113 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on March 9, bringing the provincial total to 29,918 cases. The new cases are located in the Far North West (4), Far North East (9), North West (9), North Central (4), North East (1), Saskatoon (37), Central East (4), Regina (30), South West (3), South Central (1) and South East (3) zones. Eight (8) cases are pending residence information. Three cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far North West (1), North Central (1) and Regina (1) zones. One (1) case was found to be an out-of-province resident and removed from the counts.

There are a total of 28,104 recoveries and 1,414 cases are considered active. This is the lowest number of active cases since November 11.

One hundred and thirty-nine (139) people are in hospital. One hundred and fourteen (114) people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (2), Far North East (1), North West (12), North Central (8), North East (2), Saskatoon (44), Central East (3), Regina (39) and South East (3). Twenty-five people are in intensive care: North Central (2), Saskatoon (11), Central East (2) and Regina (10).

There were 1,874 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on March 8, 2021.

To date, 597,743 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan.