COVID-19 in Sask.: 475 new cases, 2 more deaths reported Wednesday
CBC
Saskatchewan reached two COVID-19 milestones on Wednesday, breaking 60,000 total cases so far, and 4,000 known active cases for the third time during the pandemic.
There province has had 60,149 cases since the beginning of the pandemic and currently has 4,016 known active cases, according to the provincial dashboard.
The last time Saskatchewan reached more than 4,000 cases was in January. The most known active cases the province has faced in the pandemic so far was 4,763 on Dec. 7.
Nationally, Saskatchewan has the third most active COVID-19 cases per capita, according to federal data. The province has 333 active cases per 100,000 people, behind the Northwest Territories (385) and Alberta (413).
However, Saskatchewan has the highest rate of cases over the past 14 days, with about 450 cases per 100,000 people.
Saskatchewan reported 475 new cases on Wednesday. Of them, more than one in three (about 35 per cent) are in people 19 or younger, and about one in five new cases are in kids 11 and under.
About one in seven new cases (15 per cent) were in people who were fully vaccinated from the COVID-19 virus.