77 new COVID-19 cases reported in Sask.

Saskatchewan reported 77 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday.

There are currently 650 cases considered active in the province, with 137 more recoveries.

The new cases are found in the Northwest (three), North Central (five), Saskatoon (22), East Central (21), Regina (11), Southwest (one), South Central (two), and Southeast (eight). Four new cases are pending residency information.

Across the province, 109 people related to COVID-19 are hospitalized, including 34 in intensive care. Of those 109 patients, 68, or 62.4 percent, were not fully vaccinated.

There is an additional patient receiving care outside of the province.

The seven-day average of new cases per day is 61, or 5.1 per 100,000 population.

Health workers in the province administered 2,444 new doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. There are 844,090 fully vaccinated residents in Saskatchewan.