On the day when additional COVID-19 public health measures were announced, the daily update was a mix of good and not so good news. For the first time since last Friday, there were fewer than 100 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in Saskatchewan in a day. There were more recoveries than new cases, meaning the number of active cases is down in the province. However, the number of hospitalized patients, due to COVID-19, is up…including the number of infections in I-C-U…plus the number of processed tests was below two thousand.

Of Friday’s 81 new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, only the Central West zone didn’t have at least one while there were 16 from Regina, 11 from the North East and 10 from the North Central zones. Only five new cases were reported from Saskatoon…the fewest since October 23 when there were four new cases.

With 108 people recovering from the novel coronavirus in Friday’s update, that leaves 1,427 active cases in the province…53 in hospital and 15 of those being treated in intensive care. Eight are in Saskatoon, three in the North Central zone, two in the Central East and one in each of Regina and the North West zone.

Of the 4,513 cases in the province:

• 401 cases are travelers;
• 2,071 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 1,018 have no known exposures; and
• 1,023 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan to date:

• 134 cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
• 915 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 1,666 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 1,260 are in the 40-59 age range; 557 are in the 60-79 age range; and 115 are in the 80-plus range.
• 51 per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
• 29 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

Of 4,513 confirmed cases:

• 1,237 cases are from the Saskatoon area
• 948 cases are from the north area (309 north west, 456 north central, 183 north east)
• 683 cases are from the Regina area
• 611 cases are from the south area (253 south west, 256 south central, 102 south east) 564 cases are from the far north area (453 far north west, 23 far north central, 88 far north east)
• 459 cases are from the central area (203 central west, 256 central east)
• 11 cases have pending residence information

To date, 291,072 COVID-19 tests have been processed Saskatchewan. As of November 11, 2020 when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 193,007 people tested per million population. The national rate was 270,258 people tested per million population.

On Thursday, 1,706 COVID-19 tests were processed in Saskatchewan.