Saskatchewan is tracking in the best\u002Dcase scenario projected by the province\u0027s modelling team, but doctors say infection rates remain high.
However, Dr. Johnmark Opondo, a medical health officer with the Saskatchewan Health Authority, said he is bracing for uncertain months ahead as the virus spreads in sporadic fits and starts.
Opondo said the good news is that the province is starting to see “signs of reduced infection rates.”He said the province is in a “plateau” of high infection rates fuelled by BA.2, the latest COVID-19 iteration of concern in Saskatchewan. The province analyzed samples from 572 COVID-19 patients in the week of April 24 to April 30 and found more than 83 per cent were sick with BA.2, a share that rapidly rose in recent weeks.
A modelling package from mid-April presented three scenarios depending on how the population behaves. In all scenarios, the modellers assumed BA.2 was 30 per cent more infectious than the original Omicron variant of COVID-19 and that about 30 per cent of residents had already been infected.
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