A hopping 485 new cases with three deaths have been reported in Saturday’s provincial covid report.

The province announced 479 new recoveries and 3,722 vaccines adminstered as well over the days of Friday and Saturday.

Two of the deaths are in the 80+ age group in Saskatoon and Regina, while one person in the 50-59 age group in North Central has also died.

Thre were 275 new cases Jan. 1 and 210 cases Jan 2.

The new cases are located in the Far North West (13), Far North Central (1), Far North East (90), North West (51), North Central (68), North East (18), Saskatoon (75), Central West (3), Central East (32), Regina (81), South Central (18) and South East (24) zones.  Eleven new cases have pending residence information.

Ten Saskatchewan residents tested out-of-province have been added to the case counts in the Far North East (1), North Central (1), North West (7), and Regina (1) counts.  Thirty-one previously reported cases with pending residence information have been assigned to the Far North East (3), North West (1), and North Central (27) zones.

A total of 12,975 individuals have recovered and 2,712 cases are considered active. Of those active cases, 43 are in the south central zone.