Fourteen new, confirmed cases of COVID-19, nine of them found to be in Hutterite colonies, were part of Friday’s update from the Ministry of Health.

Six of the new infections are reported from each of the Central and South regions with one case each in Saskatoon and the North region. The provincial total of novel coronavirus positive tests is up to 1,319. However, Saskatchewan reported 24 more people have recovered from COVID-19 for a provincial total of 1,008, meaning 293 cases are considered to be active. Of those active cases, 15 people are in hospital…six in I-C-U, three in Saskatoon, two in Regina and one in the North region. Four of the nine infections being treated on an inpatient basis are in the South region with three more in Saskatoon and one each in Regina and the Central region.

Friday’s update added that a previous positive test with a pending location was found to not be from a Saskatchewan resident. The case was removed from the province’s total confirmed case count and added to the province or territory the person is actually from.

Of the 1,319 cases in the province:

• 202 cases are travellers;
• 659 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 322 have no known exposures; and
• 126 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, 282 from the South, 245 are from the Saskatoon area, 193 from the North, 160 from the Central region and 91 from the Regina area.
• One case that tested positive in Saskatchewan that had a pending location has been determined to be a nonSaskatchewan resident. Please note that this case has been removed from Saskatchewan’s total confirmed case count and should be included in their resident province/territory count.
• 210 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 425 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 416 are in the 40-59 age range; 222 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, 98,510 COVID19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 29, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 71,299 people tested per million population. The national rate was 106,234 people tested per million population.

On Thursday, 1,804 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan. This is the highest daily number of tests performed to date.