Regional Covid-19 Resources and On Reserve Stats by Region Below:
Black = New Cases, Green = Recovered, Red = Deaths, Blue – Hospitalized, Purple – ISC reported total –  Updated Daily
BC
14 458 158 8,632 8,804
AB
9 1,046 185 20,082 20,311
SK
0 495 129 16,186 16,343
MB
4 901 155 25,118 25,283
ON
81 365 80 21,111 21,459
QC
86 115 26 13,653 13,793
Atlantic
0 14 9 4,614 4,658
North60
10 326 56 19,406 19,499
 

New COVID-19 wastewater study shows drop in cities across Sask.- CBC

Viral load in Saskatoon down by more than 85 per cent

May 16, 2022

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan say their latest COVID-19 wastewater results are good news.

On Monday, researchers announced that traces of COVID-19 in the city’s wastewater treatment plant had decreased by 85 per cent, compared to the previous week.

The decline comes after a huge spike of COVID-19 viral load in April, which resulted in the city’s highest numbers of the virus during the entire pandemic.

John Giesy, a former Canada Research Chair in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Saskatchewan and current professor, said the latest numbers are making him hopeful.

“I had anticipated the second surge in the sixth Omicron wave, but now we finally seem to have passed the peak,” he wrote in an email.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/covid-wastewater-may-2022-1.6454940

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