Saskatchewan has 2 new cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday, for a total to date of 808 cases. One is in the Saskatoon area and one is in the north. There have been 9 more recoveries and 3 people are in the hospital, with 2 in the north and 1 in Saskatoon and no on with the virus in intensive care. There are now 47 active cases and a total of 746 people have recovered.

Crunching the numbers further, to date 41.8 per cent of the cases have been in the far north.
The next largest percentage is in the Saskatoon area with 23.6 per cent of the total.
The north is next at 14.8 per cent, then Regina at 9.9 per cent, 8.1 per cent in the south and 1.6 per cent in the central portion of the province.
Wednesday’s count across Canada is 106,366 cases and 8711 deaths, with recoveries at 66 per cent.

Of the 808 cases in the province:
168 cases are travellers;
483 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
113 have no known exposures; and
44 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.
338 of the cases are from the Far North, 191 are from the Saskatoon area, 120 from the North, 80 from the Regina area, 66 from the South and 13 from the Central region.
117 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
284 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 253 are in the 40-59 age range; 133 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.
15 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

To date, 70,875 COVID19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 6, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 52,514 people tested per million population. The national rate was 80,347 people tested per million population.