Some light at the end of the tunnel for everyone at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre, the site of a COVID-19 outbreak.
To date, 99 total cases have been linked to the hospital, including 14 patients, 45 secondary cases, 34 healthcare staff and 6 visitors. Currently, there are 3 patients with COVID-19, including one receiving intensive care.
This is a small increase from 97 cases reported last Friday (Feb.12).
Janna-Lea Yawney, the Interim Director of Acute Care for the Yorkton area, says the outbreak in the Intensive Care Unit that was first declared January 17 was lifted on Saturday (Feb. 13).
“We were very excited,” Yawney said of learning the ICU outbreak was officially declared over.
The remaining outbreak is in the 1st East and West medical units; the area has been listed as a declared outbreak since January 19.
Vaccines delivered to Yorkton
On Wednesday (Feb. 17), the Government of Saskatchewan said 12,870 doses of the Pfizer vaccine were expected to arrive in Regina and Saskatoon that day and in Yorkton, Swift Current and North Battleford on Thursday (Feb. 18).
Yawney says they received 905 doses of the Pfizer vaccine that will be administered this weekend at long term and private care homes and to healthcare workers in phase 1 of the province’s vaccine rollout plan.
“It’s definitely uplifting for the residents in those facilities as well as staff here at the hospital.” she said.
In today’s COVID-19 update, the province says a total of 2,403 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered yesterday (Thurs) in Saskatchewan, including 1,014 in the Central East Region, bringing the provincial total to 53,030.
