Daily COVID update Dec. 13: Three deaths, 222 new cases, 128 recoveries

Another three people have died while infected with COVID.

In a news release Sunday, the Ministry of Health reported the three deaths.

Of those deaths, two people were 80 or older, both from Saskatoon. The third was someone in the 70-79 age group from Regina.

These deaths follow the highest single-day total of deaths in the province, when 11 new deaths were reported Saturday.

The active case total also rose after a significant decline Saturday.

There were 222 new cases reported, along with 128 recoveries. That puts the active case count at 4,188.

The new cases were in the Saskatoon (53), Regina (57), northwest (39), north-central (15), far northwest (15), far northeast (nine), southwest (four), northeast (six), southeast (five), central-east (eight), south-central (six) and central-west (three) areas. The location is under investigation for two new cases.

Five cases where the location was under investigation have been assigned to the far northeast (two), northwest (two) and Saskatoon (one) areas.

The seven-day average of daily new cases is 264, or 21.8 new cases per 100,000 population.

There are 117 people in hospital, including 23 in intensive care. That number includes nine ICU cases in Regina, seven in Saskatoon and six in the north-central zone.

Since the pandemic hit Saskatchewan, there have been 11,971 total cases. Of those, 7,694 have recovered and 89 have died.

There were 2,948 tests performed in Saskatchewan Saturday, raising our total number of tests since March to 385,948.