After a months-long COVID-19 outbreak, Pelican Narrows is finally, for the moment, free of COVID-19.
According to the Angelique Canada Health Centre in Pelican Narrows, no remaining COVID-19 cases were present in the community as of Nov. 3. The area has been hit hard by the pandemic during previous waves, with a total of 888 people having tested positive since the pandemic began - 10 deaths have been tied directly to COVID-19.
Around 30 people are still self-isolating in the community, due to being close contacts of people who had previously tested positive.
No cases are active in Deschambault Lake and none have been active since Oct. 25, according to the Jonah Sewap Memorial Health Centre based in the community. A total of 217 people have tested positive in Deschambault Lake since the pandemic started. According to the centre, no people in Deschambault Lake are currently self-isolating due to COVID-19 close contacts.
Only five COVID-19 cases are still active in the far north east 2 health zone in Saskatchewan as of Nov. 4. The exact location of those cases is not known, but five people in the Creighton, Denare Beach and Flin Flon, Sask. areas have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week, according to data from the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA).
Province-wide, Saskatchewan has dropped below 2,000 active cases of COVID-19, with 1,782 people still sick as of Nov. 4. More than a quarter of those cases are in northern or far north regions, with the most found in the north central zone, centred around Prince Albert (where 166 people are actively sick) and in the north west, around the Battlefords and Lloydminster (where 139 people have active cases).
