COVID-19 data.The province reported 13 COVID-19-related deaths in the seven days ending on March 5, down from the 44 deaths from the previous reporting period.The report said 85 per cent of the deaths were people aged 80 and older.
Living with COVID-19 means being vigilant, Saskatchewan researcher says Hospitalizations also dropped, with 339 patients in hospital as of March 9 who have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
That is down from 353 on March 2.The weekly report said 142 current patients were in hospital with a COVID-19-related illness, with 186 having an incidental COVID-19 infection.
Officials noted 12 cases are still under investigation.Patients being treated in intensive care dropped from 19 to 12.The incidence of new cases continued to fall, although officials cautioned that the rates do not include cases detected by home rapid-antigen tests.The province said 1,013 new cases were laboratory-confirmed during the reporting period, down from 1,101 the previous week.Saskatchewan has stopped performing PCR tests on the general population.