An additional 6,867 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 125,062. To date, this is the highest one-day total for vaccine delivery in the province.

The 6,867 doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported today were administered in the following regions: Far North West (483), Far North Central (10), Far North East (410), North Central (87), North East (383), Saskatoon (639), Central West (131), Central East (1051), Regina (3,307), South West (196), South Central (0), and South East (397). Of the doses administered March 18, 2,107 were delivered at the Regina drive thru clinic location alone.

COVID-19 Update

Three Saskatchewan resident who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. The deaths were reported in the 80+ age group from the Central West zone (1), the 60-69 age group from the Far North West zone (1), and the 50-59 age group from the Far North Central zone.

There are 174 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on March 19, bringing the provincial total to 31,259 cases. The new cases are located in the Far North East (3), North West (8), North Central (8), North East (11), Saskatoon (20), Central East (12), Regina (86), South West (4), South Central (6) and South East (11) zones. Five (5) new cases are pending residence information. Three (3) cases with pending residence information were assigned to the North Central (1) and Central West (2) zones.

There are a total of 29,500 recoveries and 1,345cases are considered active.

One hundred thirty-three (133) people are in hospital. One hundred and six (106) people are receiving inpatient care: Far North West (3), Far North East (1), North West (5), North Central (6), Saskatoon (42), Central East (6), Regina (37), South West (1), South Central (3) and South East (2). Twenty-seven (27) people are in intensive care: Saskatoon (10), Central East (3), Regina (13) and South Central (1).

There were 3,635 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan on March 18, 2021.

To date, 624,171 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan.