The Ministry of Health will have positive numbers to sit on for the weekend when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the province.

With only one new case of the novel coronavirus reported today Friday…in the Far North region…10 people recovering and two inpatient care cases being released from hospital, Saskatchewan’s next update will be Monday…the first weekend with no numbers being updated since the COVID-19 pandemic became an issue in the province in mid-March.

Factoring in Friday’s numbers, Saskatchewan’s totals are 796 confirmed cases of the virus with 711 individuals having recovered. There have been 14 deaths from COVID-19 leaving 71 active cases in the province…four of which are in hospitalized. One of those is receiving inpatient care in Saskatoon, another Saskatoon case is in I-C-U while two other Intensive Care patients are in the North region.

At week’s end, 89.3% of confirmed novel coronavrus infections have recovered with only 8.9% of total cases still active.

Of the 796 cases in the province:

• 165 cases are travellers;
• 479 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 109 have no known exposures; and
• 43 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan:

• 55 cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
• 335 of the cases are from the Far North, 187 are from the Saskatoon area, 118 from the North, 80 from the Regina area, 64 from the South and 12 from the Central region.
• 116 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 278 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 249 are in the 40-59 age range; 132 are in the 60-79 age range; and 21 are in the 80-plus range.
• 51 per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
• 14 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

To date, 67,791 COVID19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 1, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 50,432 people tested per million population. The national rate was 75,773 people tested per million population.