Latest COVID update May 13: 5 deaths, 232 recoveries, 223 new cases

The eligibility age drops again on Friday morning to 23 or older as the percentage of those 30-plus who have a first vaccine dose climbs to 62 per cent.

Vaccines continue to be administered, with 8,145 doses given since the last update. Regina has 1,832 new doses while in Saskatoon, there were 1,404 given. In the southeast, 983 doses were given, south-central gave 538, central-east recorded 484, central-west gave 468 while the southwest gave 452.

Up north, there were 793 administered in the northwest and 312 in the far northwest. In the north-central zone, there were 427 doses given and in the northeast, they were at 315. The smallest number of doses given was in the far northeast at 125.

There were 282 doses administered to people for whom their hometown is being determined.

In total, there have been 545,459 doses of vaccine given to Saskatchewan residents.

COVID CASES

Five new deaths were reported Thursday. The far northeast zone had two people die — one in their 60s and another in their 70s. Another person in their 70s died in the north-central zone. Two people in their 80s — one in the northwest and one in Regina — also died due to the virus.

There are 223 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan, bringing the provincial total to 43,926 cases.

Saskatoon had the largest number of those new cases at 71. The central-east zone had the second-largest number of cases at 28, followed by Regina at 24.

The south-central zone had 17 cases while the northwest and southeast zones each had 15 cases. North-central recorded 12 new cases. The far northeast had nine while the far northwest had seven. Six new cases were people for whom their hometown is being determined.

The seven-day average of new COVID-19 case number is 212 or 17.3 new cases per 100,000.

There are 2,032 cases considered active with 232 recoveries since the last update.

HOSPITALIZATIONS

Hospitals continue to care for patients with 161 of those receiving inpatient care. Regina hospitals have 41 of those patients while Saskatoon is at 57.

Other zones have a handful of patients — the south-central zone has six patients while the northwest has five. There are four each in the north-central, central-east and southwest zones. The far northwest has one patient.

Intensive care units have 35 patients: Regina has 18, Saskatoon has 14 and there is one each in the northwest, north-central and central-east zones.