COVID-19 in Sask.: ICU patient receiving out-of-province care returns, 23 remain in Ontario
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One patient sent to an intensive care unit in Ontario returned to Saskatchewan on Friday, the province said in Saturday's COVID-19 update.
The patient is now included in the 173 patients receiving in-patient care for the illness in Saskatchewan hospitals, according to the provincial COVID-19 dashboard.
There are currently another 53 people in ICUs in Saskatchewan, and 23 Saskatchewan patients in intensive care in Ontario.
About 70 per cent of the total 226 people in Saskatchewan hospitals with COVID-19 were not fully vaccinated.
The province's dashboard shows that hospital numbers have continued to drop in recent days.
Patients brought back into the province — which the province refers to as "repatriation" — no longer need to be in an ICU, but will be readmitted to a Saskatchewan hospital because they will still need care.
Marlo Pritchard, president of the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency, told reporters on Friday that the the agency has "no plan [for transfers] past Sunday."
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan has continued on a downward trend, reaching 2,307 on Saturday, a decrease of about 51 per cent from a month ago.
On Sept. 30, the province had 4,669 active cases.
For just over a week, the number of new cases reported has dropped each day.
There were 189 new cases reported on Saturday, according to the provincial COVID-19 dashboard, bringing the total number of cases to 77,494.
Of the new cases, nearly 30 per cent are under 12 years old and ineligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in Canada.
Saskatchewan reported four new deaths, bringing the total in the province since the start of the pandemic to 850.
The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases dropped to 203, about 29 per cent lower than one week ago, according to the dashboard.
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