by: lynn giesbrecht
nearly a third of saskatchewan residents have now received their first dose of a covid-19 vaccine as the province reported 286 new cases and two more deaths saturday.
with a total of 392,294 doses administered, 30 per cent of the province’s total population has now received their first dose, according to a news release. of residents ages 40 and up, 56 per cent have had their first shot.
this comes after another 10,159 shots made it into arms on friday. these new doses were given in the far north west (346), far north east (253), north west (930), north central (859), north east (552), saskatoon (3,277), central west (458), central east (529), regina (627), south west (871), south central (233) and south east (908) zones. an extra 316 doses given are still waiting for residence information.
anyone ages 44 and up is eligible to get their vaccine,
the two people who died were both in their 70s from the regina area. this brings the province’s pandemic death toll to 473.
there are currently 186 people in hospital, with 51 in the icu.