Another death due to COVID-19 and another single-day high of new novel coronavirus cases in Saskatchewan Monday. An individual from the North Central zone, in their 80s, is the 29th person in the province to have perished due to COVID-19. This is the fourth death in the last three days.

Monday’s Ministry of Health update had 190 new cases of the virus, with 22 people recovering, meaning the active case count in Saskatchewan soared up to 1,289. Seventy-six of today’s 190 new cases are from Saskatoon. So while the city has more than a third of the overall active cases in the province, it also has 40% of the new cases. There were also 25 from Regina, 19 from the North West zone, 15 from each of the Far North West and North Central zones while the remaining 40 new cases were spread out among the eight other zones. Six new cases have pending residence information while pending location from Saturday’s report was assigned to the North West zone.

Of the 1,289 active cases, 37 people are in hospital with eight in I-C-U; four in Saskatoon and two in each of Regina and the North Central zone. Overall, there have been 4,087 reported cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan since the pandemic broke out in mid-March, with 2,769 recoveries from the infection.

Of the 4,087 cases in the province:

• 388 cases are travelers;
• 1,871 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 887 have no known exposures; and
• 941 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan to date:

• 120 cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
• 832 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 1,488 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 1,157are in the 40-59 age range; 507 are in the 60-79 age range; and 103 are in the 80-plus range.
• 51 per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
• 29 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

Of 4,087 confirmed cases:

• 1,129 cases are from the Saskatoon area
• 884 cases are from the north area (283 north west, 431 north central, 170 north east)
• 573 cases are from the Regina area
• 547 cases are from the south area (243 south west, 226 south central, 78 south east)
• 504 cases are from the far north area (434 far north west, 5 far north central, 65 far north east)
• 437 cases are from the central area (201 central west, 236 central east)
• 13 cases have pending residence information

To date, 284,021 COVID-19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of November 7, 2020 when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 188,720 people tested per million population. The national rate was 264,310 people tested per million population.

On Sunday, 2,505 COVID-19 tests were processed in Saskatchewan.

Tracking COVID Risk in School Settings

A list of all schools with any COVID-19 positive staff or students is now available at www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-schools. Please note that public health will continue to contact families directly if a student or family member is considered a close contact to a confirmed COVID-19 case.

Schools will be removed from this list after 14 days, which is a standard period of self-isolation for close contacts. Declarations by a medical health officer of an outbreak in a school will continue to be posted at www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-outbreaks. Outbreaks are generally declared when there are two or more individuals with COVID-19 and the transmission likely occurred within the school setting.