Following Monday’s spike of 18 new, confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, Tuesday’s provincial update had only one new, confirmed infection of the novel coronavirus that being in Saskatoon. Tuesday’s report showed two people having recovered from COVID-19, meaning 631 individuals out of 684 confirmed cases have recovered from the virus. Saskatchewan’s death toll from COVID-19 remains at 13, leaving 40 active cases of the novel coronavirus. Of those 40 active cases, three are in hospital with two in Saskatoon, one in Intensive Care, and the other receiving inpatient treatment in the Far North region.

Of the 684 cases in the province:

• 146 cases are travellers;
• 409 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 81 have no known exposures; and
• 48 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan:

• 52 cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
• 277 of the cases are from the Far North, 182 are from the Saskatoon area, 112 from the North, 80 from the Regina area, 19 from the South and 12 from the Central region.
• 104 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 241 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 207 are in the 40-59 age range; 114 are in the 60-79 age range; and 18 are in the 80-plus range.
• 51 per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
• 13 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

To date, 56,715 COVID-19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of June 14, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 42,855 people tested per million population. The national rate was 58,088 people tested per million population.