There are two new cases of COVID-19 to report on July 8, according to the Saskatchewan Health Authority, bringing the total to 808 cases.
One new case is in the Saskatoon region and one is in the North.
Of the 808 reported COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan, 47, or about 5.8 per cent, are considered active.
Nine more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 748, or 92.3 per cent of those diagnosed with the virus.
Three people are in hospital. Two individuals are receiving inpatient care in the north and one in Saskatoon. No one is in intensive care.
Sixty-six cases have been diagnosed in the south region. Five of the cases are considered active. There have been 338 cases from the far north, 191 from the Saskatoon area, 120 from the north, 80 from the Regina area and 13 from the central region.
Of the 808 cases in the province, 168 cases are travellers, 483 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 113 have no known exposures and 44 are under investigation by local public health.
Overall in Saskatchewan, 55 cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
A total of 117 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, 284 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 253 are in the 40-59 age range, 133 are in the 60-79 age range, and 21 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-one per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
Fifteen deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported.
To date, 70,875 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 6, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 52,514 people tested per million population. The national rate was 80,347 people tested per million population.
