Active case numbers are down, as are the number of hospitalized patients in Friday’s provincial COVID-19 update. Friday’s update had one new, confirmed case of the novel coronavirus from the Far North region of Saskatchewan. But, three more people were said to have recovered from COVID-19 and one person was released from I-C-U in Saskatoon. That leaves 27 active cases and only one person infected by the virus in a Saskatoon Intensive Care Unit in the province. In total, there have been 649 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan with 11 people having died as a result and 611 recoveries.

Of the 649 cases in the province:

• 143 cases are travellers;
• 390 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 79 have no known exposures; and
• 37 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan:

• 51 cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
• 258 of the cases are from the Far North, 170 are from the Saskatoon area, 112 from the North, 80 from the Regina area, 17 from the South and 12 from the Central region.
• 97 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 230 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 198 are in the 40-59 age range; 106 are in the 60-79 age range; and 18 are in the 80-plus range.
• 52 per cent of the cases are females and 48 per cent are males.
• 11 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

To date, 50,597 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of June 3, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were last available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 38,346 people tested per million population. The national rate was 47,552 people tested per million population.