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By paNOW Staff

COVID-19

Weekly EPI reports 10 new COVID-related deaths along with 285 new cases in the province

Jun 9, 2022 | 1:52 PM

Deaths from COVID-19 have remained consistent from one week to the other according to the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 integrated epidemiology (epi) report.

There were 10 newly-reported COVID-19 deaths reported from May 29 to June 4, compared to nine deaths reported the previous week.

The ministry also reported 285 confirmed cases of COVID, lower than last week’s 364 new cases, and 5,888 laboratory tests performed in Saskatchewan during that time period. The number of tests was higher than the number of tests in the previous week (5,667).

Numbers of new cases continue to be consistently higher among the 50 years and older age category — 56.1 per cent this week compared to 52.5 per cent reported last week.

The Omicron BA.2 sublineage accounted for 97.5 per cent of the variants of concern reported this past week.

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There were 22 COVID-like illness patients per 1,000 emergency department visits which was a decrease from last week (30 per 1,000).

There are currently eight confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care and care home settings.

As of June 4, of the population five years and older, 85.9 per cent received at least one dose of a two dose COVID-19 vaccine and 81 per cent completed a series.

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

As of June 5, 2022, there have been 521 Paxlovid prescriptions.

More than 21 million rapid antigen test kits have been distributed in the province. They are easily accessible at more than 600 locations.

Issued Thursdays, the Ministry of Health’s 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. The hospitalization data is a comparison from June 2-8, 2022.

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

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