No new cases of COVID-19 linked to the outbreak at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre, meaning the total is still at 99.
The Interim Director of Acute Care for the Yorkton area, Janna-Lea Yawney, says the breakdown of those cases remains the same: 14 patients, 45 secondary cases, 34 healthcare staff and 6 visitors.
Yawney did mention there is one death linked to the outbreak, but couldn’t provide further details.
Yawney also says there hasn’t been any further transmission of the virus in the 1st East and West inpatient medical units for about a week-and-a-half.
“We’re anticipating that if we continue to go in the right direction we should, hopefully, be able to lift that outbreak by the middle of March,” she said. “Of course that’s pending that 28-day period of no transmission.”
“And we recognize that that could change, but we’ve seen definite progress in other units so we’re hopeful.” she added.
The outbreak in the medical units was first declared on January 19.
On the vaccination front, Yawney says all 905 doses that arrived in Yorkton last week were used this past weekend.
The focus was on people identified in phase 1 of the vaccine rollout plan, so in personal and long-term care homes and staff at the hospital.
“We were actually able to get a few extra doses out of that, which is excellent, and above what we were anticipating,” she said.
Yawney did not have a total for how many vaccine doses were administered in Yorkton to date.