The number of active cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan was down slightly in Thursday’s update.

Between nine more recoveries from the novel coronavirus and five new cases, one of which is presumptive, the number of active cases in the province is at 57 today Thursday after being at 61 Wednesday. The total number of COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan is at 331 with 270 people having recovered, while four people have died from the virus.

Also, one additional COVID-19 case was hospitalized in the past 24 hours bringing the total to six, with one in Intensive Care.

Of the 331 cases in the province:

136 cases are travellers;

142 are contacts or linked to mass gatherings;

33 have no known exposures; and

20 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan:

36 of the cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.

150 of the cases are from the Saskatoon area, 71 from the Regina area, 62 from the north, 15 from the south, 11 from the central region and 22 from the far north.

26 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.

117 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 113 are in the 40-59 age range; 65 are in the 60-79 age range; and 10 are in the 80-plus range.

51 per cent of the cases are males and 49 per cent are females.

To date, 25,872 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. Per capita, Saskatchewan’s testing rate of 21,895 tests per million population exceeds the national rate of 16,155 tests per million population.