Three Saskatchewan residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. All three deaths were in the Saskatoon zone, with one in the 30-39, one in the 60-69 and one in the 80+ age groups.

There are 147 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on December 30, 2020, bringing the provincial total to date to 15,160 cases. The new cases are located in the Far North West (4), Far North East (25), North West (9), North Central (10), North East (5), Saskatoon (13), Central East (7), Regina (44), South West (2), South Central (3) and South East (17) zones. Eight (8) new cases have pending residence information. Nine cases with pending residence information, previously reported, have been found to be out-of-province residents and were removed from the counts.

Seventeen previously reported cases have been assigned to the North Central (16) and Regina (1) zones.

Of the 15,160 cases, 2,949 cases are considered active. A total of 12,057 individuals have recovered.

One hundred and fifty-one people are in hospital. One hundred and nineteen people are receiving inpatient care: one in the Far North West, one in the Far North Central; eight in the North West; 22 in the North Central; two in the North East; 50 in the Saskatoon; one in the Central West; four in the Central East; 28 in the Regina; one in the South West; and one in the South East zones. Thirty-two people are in intensive care: two in the North West; five in the North Central; 13 in the Saskatoon; one in Central East; 10 in Regina; and one in the South West zones.

As of December 29, 2,942 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine have been provided to health care workers in Regina as part of the initial pilot and in Saskatoon as part of Phase 1.

To date, 424,533 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of December 28, 2020 when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 256,133 people tested per million population. The national rate was 364,733 people tested per million population.

Yesterday, 1,475 COVID-19 tests were processed in Saskatchewan.