An 18th person has died in Saskatchewan due to COVID-19. The individual is said to be in the 90-to-99-year-old age range, from the South region of the province.

Meanwhile, an individual associated with the Prairie Wind Estate personal care home in Herbert has tested positive for COVID-19, triggering an outbreak declaration from the Saskatchewan Health Authority. Medical Health Officer, Dr. David Torr, made the outbreak declaration Thursday. To date, no other residents or staff at the personal care home have presented with novel coronavirus symptoms. But, the S-H-A is conducting an investigation in order to identify and contain any risk of further transmission. Restrictions have been placed on visitors coming to the care home while the investigation and contact tracing are being done.

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health added in Thursday’s update that 23 of 38 new, confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus are from multiple communal living settings across the province.

The total number of COVID-19 infections in Saskatchewan is now up to 1,306 after 14 new cases were found in the Central region, 12 in the North, six in the South, five in Saskatoon and one in the Far North region. In addition, there were 55 reported recoveries from the virus for a provincial total of 984, leaving 304 active cases. Of those active cases, 14 are in hospital. The five patients in I-C-U continue to be three in Saskatoon and two in Regina. As for the nine people receiving inpatient care, four are in the South region, three in Saskatoon and one in hospital in each of Regina and the Central region.

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07/30/20

Of the 1,306 cases in the province:

• 202 cases are travellers;
• 643 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 310 have no known exposures; and
• 151 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan:

• 63 cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
• 348 of the cases are from the Far North, 276 from the South, 244 are from the Saskatoon area, 192 from the North, 154 from the Central region and 91 from the Regina area. One case’s location is still pending.
• 208 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 421 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 412 are in the 40-59 age range; 219 are in the 60-79 age range; and 46 are in the 80-plus range.
• 50 per cent of the cases are females and 50 per cent are males.
• 18 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

To date, 96,706 COVID19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 28, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 70,076 people tested per million population. The national rate was 104,992 people tested per million population.

On Wednesday, 1,682 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan.