There are now 421 cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan after the province confirmed 6 new cases on Saturday.
Four of the new cases are in the North (two in the Lloydminster area and two in the Prince Albert area), one is in the Saskatoon area and one is in the Regina area.
There are also another 8 presumptive cases in the La Loche area that do not currently count to the total number of cases. Those cases represent a boosted effort to of testing. It’s expected about 750 households in the La Loche area will be screened and tested for COVID-19 over the next 3 to 5 days.
There were 5 more recoveries on Saturday, meaning only 115 cases are considered active with 302 total recoveries.
There are currently 12 people in hospital; 10 are receiving inpatient care (five in the North region and five in Saskatoon) and two are in intensive care (in Saskatoon).
To date, 30,845 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has advised of an outbreak in Beauval. A contact tracing investigation is underway.
Of the 421 cases in the province:
- 138 cases are travellers;
- 170 are community contacts (mass gatherings included);
- 39 have no known exposures; and
- 74 are under investigation by local public health.
Overall in Saskatchewan:
- 42 of the cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
- 157 of the cases are from the Saskatoon area, 85 from the north, 76 from the Regina area, 77 from the far north, 15 from the south, and 11 from the central region.
- 39 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
- 153 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 140 are in the 40-59 age range; 75 are in the 60-79 age range; and 14 are in the 80-plus range.
- 50 per cent of the cases are males and 50 per cent are females.
- Six deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
