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By paNOW Staff

COVID-19 Update

Weekly epi report confirms 394 new cases of COVID-19 in the province, higher than previous week

Jun 16, 2022 | 1:44 PM

During the week of June 5 to June 11, 394 new cases were confirmed in Saskatchewan according to the Ministry of Health’s weekly COVID-19 integrated epidemiology (epi).

This reflects 24 laboratory-confirmed cases per 100,000 population and is higher than the number of new cases in the previous week (285).

There were 17 newly-reported COVID-19 deaths; two within the week and 15 occurred earlier (September 28, 2021, to June 4, 2022) but were reported this week. That number was higher compared to the previous week (10).

A regular audit process, which has been used throughout the pandemic, discovered the missing information and these were included in this week’s case count.

There were 5,880 laboratory tests performed in Saskatchewan during that time reflecting 4.9 tests performed per 1,000 population. The number of tests was nearly identical to the number of tests in the previous week (5,888).

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The weekly test positivity of 6.5 per cent, is an increase from the previous week (4.6 per cent).

The majority of laboratory-confirmed cases this week were 50 years and older (54.8 per cent).

The Omicron BA.2 sublineage accounted for 90.4 per cent of the variants of concern reported this week.

There were 20.5 COVID-like illness patients per 1,000 emergency department visits which was a decrease from last week (22 per 1,000).

There are currently five confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care and care home settings that were reported this week.

As of June 4, of the population five years and older, 86 per cent received at least one dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine and 81.1 per cent completed a series.

Among the population 18 years and older, 52.6 per cent had received at least one booster vaccination.

More than 21.3 million rapid antigen test kits have been distributed in the province. They are easily accessible at more than 600 locations.

Issued Thursdays, the epi report utilizes multiple data sources and includes laboratory-confirmed cases, deaths, tests, vaccination information provincially and by zones, as well as hospital and ICU census trends and distribution of rapid antigen tests. This week’s epi report looks at data from Sunday, June 5, to Saturday, June 11, 2022. The hospitalization data is a comparison from June 9-15, 2022.

The integrated epi report can be found online at saskatchewan.ca/COVID-19-cases.

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