Eight new cases of the COVID-19 virus have been diagnosed in Saskatchewan, bringing the provincial total to 349.
Seven of the eight new cases are from the far north in Saskatchewan.
Fifty-seven of the 349 cases, or 16 per cent, are considered active. Eight more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 288 recoveries.
Saskatchewan’s recovery rate now stands at 82.5 per cent.
There are currently four people in hospitals across the province. Two people are receiving inpatient care and two people are in intensive care.
Of the 349 cases in the province: 138 cases are travellers; 146 are contacts or linked to mass gatherings; 34 have no known exposures; and 31 are under investigation by local public health.
The total number of cases in Saskatchewan remains at 15, the same level that it’s been since April 4. A total of 150 cases are from the Saskatoon area, 73 are from the Regina area, 65 are from the north, 11 are from the central region and 35 are from the far north.
Thirty-seven of the cases are health care workers, but the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Twenty-nine cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. There are 125 cases in the 20-39 age range, 118 in the 40-59 age range, 66 are in the 60-79 age range and 11 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-one per cent of the cases are males and 49 per cent are females.
Four deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
So far, 27,232 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of April 22, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers are available from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 20,864 people tested per million population and exceeds the national rate of 16,497 people tested per million population.
