The number of active cases went up, but the number of hospitalized patients due to COVID-19 went down in Wednesday’s update from the Ministry of Health. Seven of 254 active cases of the novel coronavirus in Saskatchewan are receiving hospital care. There’s one infection being treated in a Saskatoon I-C-U while the other six are receiving inpatient treatment…four in Saskatoon and one in each of the North Central and Central East zones.

Of today’s 25 new cases of COVID-19 in the province, seven are from the North East zone, five from the North Central, four each from the Saskatoon area and Far North East zone, three from the Regina area and one case from both the Central East and South East zones. There were nine reported recoveries from the virus in Wednesday’s update, leaving the Saskatchewan totals at 1,920 recoveries out of 2,199 reported cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic was declared in mid-March.

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10/14/20

Of the 2,199 cases in the province to date:

• 318 cases are travellers;
• 1,071 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 618 have no known exposures; and
• 192 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan to date:

• 78 cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
• 380 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 735 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 663 are in the 40-59 age range; 350 are in the 60-79 age range; and 71 are in the 80-plus range.
• 51 per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
• 25 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
• There are:
  • 466 cases are from the south area (226 south west, 207 south central, 33 south east)
  • 454 cases are from the Saskatoon area
  • 379 cases are from the far north area (356 far north west, 0 far north central, 23 far north east)
  • 350 cases are from the north area (140 north west, 132 north central, 78 north east)
  • 315 cases are from the central area (187 central west, 128 central east)
  • 234 cases are from the Regina area

To date, 220,659 COVID-19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of October 12, 2020 when other provincial and national numbers are available from Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 152,804 people tested per million population. The national rate was 220,001 people tested per million population.

On Tuesday, 1,700 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan.

Private Gathering Sizes Reduced Starting October 16

With the increasing rise in cases throughout Saskatchewan linked to public and private social gatherings, the Public Health order on gathering sizes in private residences is being amended so that the maximum allowable gathering size for private gatherings in the home will be 15. This will be in effect as of Friday, October 16.

This will not impact restaurants, licensed establishments, banquet halls as well as weddings, funerals and religious gatherings which are all required to follow seating and physical distancing guidelines as described in the Re-Open Saskatchewan Plan at https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/health-care-administration-and-provider-resources/treatment-procedures-and-guidelines/emerging-public-health-issues/2019-novel-coronavirus/re-open-saskatchewan-plan. Any event that occurs in a private dwelling, including weddings, religious gathering and funerals, must abide by the 15 person gathering limit.