Vaccinations continue to stall across the Saskatchewan with 52.4% receiving at least one booster dose (third or fourth shot), which is the same as last week..The same for first and second doses, with 85.9% receiving their first dose and 81% receiving their second dose..Each week, The Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS) releases a wastewater study that tracks COVID-19 levels in the water and it is at its lowest level since January 2022..John Giesy, the principal investigator for GIWS, said the COVID-19 levels are very low in the water and GIWS is adapting quickly to the changing situation..“When the load is small, even a few additional infections can have a large percentage increase,” said Giesy..“Compared to where we were a few weeks ago, we’re still at a very low level.”.“We’re figuring out how to do it, but these things are coming at us fast and furious … but we’re working on it.”.COVID-19 continues to drop across Saskatchewan with only 376 new cases, which is down from 465 the prior week..The previous week had a 6.5% positivity rate that went down to 5.5% this week..COVID-19 continues to affect older Saskatchewanians with 53.5% of new cases in people over the age of 50..Omicron made up 100% of the cases with the BA.2 sublineage making up 87.8%..There’s no evidence the BA.2 sublineage is more severe than previous variants, but it is more transmissible..COVID-19 deaths went down almost 50% to only 12 deaths this week whereas last week it was 22 deaths..The weekly average of patients visiting the emergency department with COVID-like symptoms dropped to 16.5 per 1000 patients, which is significantly below the previous six-week average of 36.9 per 1000 patients. .There are five COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care and care home settings, with three of the outbreaks in Saskatoon..In April 2022, the Saskatchewan government approved both Paxlovid for wider outpatient use and started Remdesivir outpatient treatments..So far, there’s been 471 Paxlovid prescriptions and 25 Remdesivir treatments..The province distributed 21 million rapid antigen test kits across the province in over 600 locations..The province performed 6,402 tests this week, down from 6,908 the week before.
Vaccinations continue to stall across the Saskatchewan with 52.4% receiving at least one booster dose (third or fourth shot), which is the same as last week..The same for first and second doses, with 85.9% receiving their first dose and 81% receiving their second dose..Each week, The Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS) releases a wastewater study that tracks COVID-19 levels in the water and it is at its lowest level since January 2022..John Giesy, the principal investigator for GIWS, said the COVID-19 levels are very low in the water and GIWS is adapting quickly to the changing situation..“When the load is small, even a few additional infections can have a large percentage increase,” said Giesy..“Compared to where we were a few weeks ago, we’re still at a very low level.”.“We’re figuring out how to do it, but these things are coming at us fast and furious … but we’re working on it.”.COVID-19 continues to drop across Saskatchewan with only 376 new cases, which is down from 465 the prior week..The previous week had a 6.5% positivity rate that went down to 5.5% this week..COVID-19 continues to affect older Saskatchewanians with 53.5% of new cases in people over the age of 50..Omicron made up 100% of the cases with the BA.2 sublineage making up 87.8%..There’s no evidence the BA.2 sublineage is more severe than previous variants, but it is more transmissible..COVID-19 deaths went down almost 50% to only 12 deaths this week whereas last week it was 22 deaths..The weekly average of patients visiting the emergency department with COVID-like symptoms dropped to 16.5 per 1000 patients, which is significantly below the previous six-week average of 36.9 per 1000 patients. .There are five COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care and care home settings, with three of the outbreaks in Saskatoon..In April 2022, the Saskatchewan government approved both Paxlovid for wider outpatient use and started Remdesivir outpatient treatments..So far, there’s been 471 Paxlovid prescriptions and 25 Remdesivir treatments..The province distributed 21 million rapid antigen test kits across the province in over 600 locations..The province performed 6,402 tests this week, down from 6,908 the week before.
