New daily records were set in Saskatchewan for COVID-19 cases and the number of patients in intensive care.
The province reported 650 new cases on Thursday, breaking the previous one-day high of 602 set on Sept. 30.
However, a note from the government said 241 of the confirmed cases date back to Sept. 22 and had previously not been entered in the provincial database.
The northwest zone reported the most new cases (141), followed by Regina (97) and Saskatoon (82).
Health officials said 25.8 per cent of the new cases are in fully vaccinated people.
The seven-day average of new COVID-19 case numbers is 446 — 37.0 new cases per 100,000 people.
Thursday’s numbers push the overall case count in Saskatchewan to 70,457.
Health officials reported 348 people were being treated in hospital for COVID-19, 78 of whom were in intensive care. It breaks the previous high of 76 ICU patients set the previous day.
Of those people in hospital, officials said 76.4 per cent were not fully vaccinated.
The province said there were four COVID-19-related deaths, raising the death toll to 737.
Three of the deaths were in the 60 to 79 age group and the fourth was a person aged 80 and over.