The data refer to the week of March 20 to 26.
Although the free PCR test has fallen and is largely inaccessible to the general population, the number of new laboratory-confirmed cases was about 34 percent higher than the number of new cases last week.
While the Regina area had the lowest test rate (1.8 tests per 1,000 population), it also had the highest test positive rate of 18.2 percent.
For emergency department visits, there were 25.7 patients with COVID-like illness per 1,000 visits during this reporting period. This is lower than the average weekly interest rate, which was calculated with six-week value data.
Nursing rates are mostly high in the county: (Saskatchewan Government)
Nineteen more people are being treated for COVID-19 compared to the last reporting period.
The Omicron BA.2 sub-variable accounted for 15.5 percent of the anxiety variants reported this week, down from 25.9 percent last week.
Ten confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported in long-term care and home care settings.
On the vaccine front, 80.6 percent of the population over the age of five have completed a series of vaccines against COVID-19, while 51.3 percent of those aged 18 and over have received at least one booster vaccine.
The Regina zone is the only zone that reports that more than 80 percent of the eligible population has completed a series of vaccinations, at 82.5 percent. Everything else is below 80 percent.
