A banner, positive day for Saskatchewan’s COVID-19 situation as Phase 4.2 of the province’s Re-Open plan was introduced. There was one new, confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in the Far North region reported Monday…but there was 18 recoveries in the update, bringing the number of active cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan back below 100 to 87. Of those active cases, five are in hospital…none in I-C-U. In total, 679 individuals have recovered out of the 779 confirmed cases of the virus.

Of the 779 cases in the province:

• 165 cases are travellers;
• 472 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 103 have no known exposures; and
• 39 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan:

• 55 cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
• 324 of the cases are from the Far North, 186 are from the Saskatoon area, 114 from the North, 80 from the Regina area, 63 from the South and 12 from the Central region.
• 113 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 268 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 247 are in the 40-59 age range; 130 are in the 60-79 age range; and 21 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, 65,496 COVID19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of June 27, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 48,781 people tested per million population. The national rate was 71,209 people tested per million population.