Saskatchewan recorded its highest number of people recovering from COVID-19 in a day on Tuesday…but there were still more new cases according to the daily update from the Ministry of Health. For the first time, the province reported at least 100 recoveries from the novel coronavirus. However, the 111 recoveries were off-set by 127 new cases, leaving 1,305 active cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan. In total, there have been 4,214 reported cases of the virus in the province since the pandemic was declared in mid-March with 2,880 people having recovered.

The hospitalization number rose to 44 in Tuesday’s update, with 11 people in intensive care…six in Saskatoon, two each in Regina and the North Central zone and one in the Central East zone. Fifty of Tuesday’s 127 new cases are from Saskatoon with 31 from Regina, 11 from the North West zone and 34 spread out amongst eight other provincial zones. One case is pending residence information while three pending cases reported on Sunday were assigned to the North Central zone.

Of the 4,214 cases in the province:

• 394 cases are travelers;
• 1,931 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 914 have no known exposures; and
• 975 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan to date:

• 122 cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
• 854 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 1,544 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 1,190 are in the 40-59 age range; 522 are in the 60-79 age range; and 104 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 4,214 confirmed cases:

• 1,179 cases are from the Saskatoon area
• 902 cases are from the north area (294 north west, 436 north central, 172 north east)
• 604 cases are from the Regina area
• 553 cases are from the south area (243 south west, 232 south central, 78 south east)
• 520 cases are from the far north area (440 far north west, 9 far north central, 71 far north east)
• 445 cases are from the central area (203 central west, 242 central east)
• 11 cases have pending residence information

To date, 285,858 COVID-19 tests have been processed Saskatchewan. As of November 8, 2020 when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 190,095 people tested per million population. The national rate was 265,663 people tested per million population.

On Monday, 1,837 COVID-19 tests were processed in Saskatchewan.