Sask reports two more COVID-19 deaths, cases continue to decline

EAGLE STAFF

Covid-19 claimed the lives of two more Saskatchewan residents in the most recent four-week span, according to a provincial Health Department report.

Individuals died during the weeks of Sept. 28-Oct. 4, the most recent week covered in the report, and Sept. 7-13, one document in the report showed. Staff will resume issuing reports every two weeks, starting on Oct. 24.

The deaths brought the provincial total to 2,100 people killed by Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, the document said

Outbreaks of Covid-19 made up 11 of the 22 outbreaks that affected places like long-term care homes, it added.

“RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and influenza activity remain low and stable,” the report said. “Over the last four weeks, the most common respiratory virus detected by sentinel physicians is rhinovirus (the common cold).”

A total of 79 people provincial residents tested positive for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 during the latest week, down from 99 in the previous week.

One person in the department’s west-central zone was among them but nobody from this area tested positive for the flu or RSV.

Hospitals admitted 18 people with the coronavirus during Sept. 28-Oct. 4, an increase of two from the week before and down from the 25 admitted during Sept. 7-13. Two covid patients during the four weeks needed intensive care.

One of the four people who tested positive for the flu during the latest week went to hospital, as did two of the five who tested positive for RSV. A total of 21 people with the flu went to hospitals, 11 of them during Sept. 14-20.

The 61 residents considered sick with covid during Sept. 28-Oct. 4 included 26 in both the over 65 and 20 to 64 age groups plus five under five and four between five and 19.