Three cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, that were thought to be recovered, have been what the province terms as “reactivated”. Add those three to the 13 new, confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in Friday’s update and there are 128 active cases of COVID-19 in the province with 12 people in hospital. In the cases that were removed from being recovered and reactivated, the Ministry of Health says that can happen when an individual relapses or develops additional symptoms of the virus.

Of Friday’s new cases, eight are from the Central region, two from the Regina area and single cases in each of the Far North, North and South regions. The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan is now up to 936. There were two reported recoveries, upping that provincial total to 793. Only one hospitalized patient is in Intensive Care that being in Saskatoon. There are seven inpatient care cases in Saskatoon, two in the South, one in the North and one in the Central region.

Of the 936 cases in the province:

• 182 cases are travellers;
• 514 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 155 have no known exposures; and
• 85 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan:

• 59 cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
• 340 of the cases are from the Far North, 204 are from the Saskatoon area, 122 from the North, 116 from the South, 87 from the Regina area and 67 from the Central region.
• 130 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 323 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 292 are in the 40-59 age range; 163 are in the 60-79 age range; and 28 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, 78,990 COVID19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 15, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 57,786 people tested per million population. The national rate was 90,126 people tested per million population.