There are five new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Aug. 10, according to the Ministry of Health, bringing the total to 1,450 cases in Saskatchewan.
Three new cases are in the Regina zone. Individual cases are in the Saskatoon and south-central areas.
Of the 1,450 reported cases, 165, or 11.3 per cent, are considered active.
Eight more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 1,265 people, or 87.2 per cent of those diagnosed.
Thirteen people are in hospital. Eight people are receiving inpatient care: three in Saskatoon, one in Regina, three in the southwest and one in the south-central region. Five people are in intensive care: three in Saskatoon, one in the north-central region and one in the southwest.
Eleven cases have been diagnosed in the southeast region. Two cases are considered active, and neither active case is in Division 4, which includes the Estevan area. There have also been 156 cases in the southwest and 163 in the south-central regions.
A total of 352 cases are from the far north area (346 far northwest, zero far north-central, six far northeast), 231 cases are from the north area (100 northwest, 66 north-central, 65 northeast), 225 cases are from the Saskatoon area, 190 cases are from the central area (160 central-west, 30 central-east) and 121 cases are from the Regina area.
Of the 1,450 cases in the province, 206 cases are travellers, 723 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 399 have no known exposures and 122 are under investigation by local public health.
Sixty-four cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
A total of 230 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, 459 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 459 are in the 40-59 age range, 248 are in the 60-79 age range, and 54 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty per cent of the cases are females and 50 per cent are males.
Twenty deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported.
To date, 113,045 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of Aug. 8, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 82,021 people tested per million population. The national rate was 118,327 people tested per million population.
A total of 1,297 COVID-19 tests were performed Sunday in Saskatchewan.
