Two people in their 80s, one from Saskatoon and the other from the North West zone, are the 90th and 91st people to have died due to COVID-19 in Saskatchewan. Otherwise, Monday’s update from the Ministry of Health has 269 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the province. Combined with 73 people said to have recovered, the active case count is up to 4,380. Even though 269 new cases was slightly above the seven-day average for new cases in Sunday’s update, the new seven-day average is down marginally Monday to 262. Of the 269 new cases, 59 are from Regina, 51 from Saskatoon, 50 from the North Central zone, 17 from the North East, 16 from Central East, 14 from the Far North East zone while seven new cases are pending residence information. That leaves 25 new cases from seven zones as all 13 provincial zones reported at least one new case of COVID-19 Monday.

The number of hospitalized infections is up Monday to 124 with 27 people in an I-C-U. A total of 12,238 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Saskatchewan since the pandemic was declared in mid-March.

Of the 12,238 cases in the province:

• 551 cases are travelers;
• 5,523 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 2,755 have no known exposures; and
• 3,409 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan to date:

• 419 cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
• 2,588 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 4,282 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 3,200 are in the 40-59 age range; 1,627 are in the 60-79 age range; and 536 are in the 80-plus range. Confirmation of age is pending for five cases.
• 50 per cent of the cases are female and 50 per cent are male.
• 91 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

Of 12,238 confirmed cases:

• 3,618 cases are from the Saskatoon area
• 2,648 cases are from the north area (995 north west, 1,254 north central, 399 north east)
• 2,453 cases are from the Regina area
• 1,422 cases are from the south area (541 south west, 489 south central, 392 south east)
• 1,287 cases are from the far north area (777 far north west, 92 far north central, 418 far north east)
• 774 cases are from the central area (319 central west, 455 central east)
• 36 cases have pending residence information

To date, 388,972 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of December 12, 2020 when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 240,595 people tested per million population. The national rate was 334,120 people tested per million population.

On Sunday, 3,024 COVID-19 tests were processed in Saskatchewan.