There’s another case of COVID-19 in Saskatoon where an outbreak was declared on Wednesday.
There have already been two positive cases in Saskatoon in as many days and they are linked to two large family gatherings in early May that exceeded the public health order of 10 people.
With two new cases to report Friday, the other from the South region, there are no 641 cases of COVID-19 to date in the province. Two more people have also recovered and out of the total number of overall cases, less than 10 per cent are considered active.
Four people are in hospital, one in Regina, three in Saskatoon and of those in Saskatoon, two are in ICU.
Of the 641 cases in the province:
142 cases are travellers;
374 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
77 have no known exposures; and
48 are under investigation by local public health.
Overall in Saskatchewan:
50 cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
253 of the cases are from the Far North, 169 are from the Saskatoon area, 112 from the North, 78 from the Regina area, 17 from the South and 12 from the Central region.
94 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
229 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 195 are in the 40-59 age range; 105 are in the 60-79 age range; and 18 are in the 80-plus range.
51 per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
10 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
To date, 46,454 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of May 27, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were last available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 35,425 people tested per million population. The national rate was 41,482 people tested per million population.















