Lloydminster was able to start Phase 1 of Re-Open Saskatchewan plan today and now the province has announced the community can kick off Phase 2 next Tuesday, just four days behind the rest of the province.

The Ministry of Health says the outbreak in the Lloydminster hospital continues to remain stable.

There are four new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan and they all occur in the La Loche area which is considered the Far North region. The Far North has approximately 76% of the active cases in the province.

Fourteen more people have recovered and there are 11 people in hospital with three in intensive care in Saskatoon. In total Saskatchewan has 568 confirmed cases of COVID-19 to date.

Of the 568 cases in the province:
138 cases are travellers;
288 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
66 have no known exposures; and
76 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan:
48 cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
197 of the cases are from the Far North, 163 are from the Saskatoon area, 105 from the North, 76 from the Regina area, 15 from the South and 12 from the Central region.
79 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
200 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 176 are in the 40-59 age range; 96 are in the 60-79 age range; and 17 are in the 80-plus range.
50 per cent of the cases are females and 50 per cent are males.
Six deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

To date, 37,439 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of May 9, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 29,029 people tested per million population, which is on par with the national rate of 29,086 people tested per million population.