Saskatchewan has eight new confirmed cases of COVID-19, as of May 15, bringing the provincial total to 590, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health said Friday.
All of the new cases are the far north, with five in La Loche and three in Beauval. Of the 590 reported cases, 176, or 30 per cent are considered active.
Ten more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 408. Sixty-nine per cent of the people diagnosed with COVID-19 in Saskatchewan have recovered.
There are currently nine people in hospital – six are receiving inpatient care (one in the north, three in Saskatoon and two in Regina) and three are in intensive care (all in Saskatoon). Hospitalizations are attributed to the location of the hospitalization, not the patient’s residence.
The number of cases in southern Saskatchewan is unchanged at 15. There have been 218 cases from the far north, 163 from the Saskatoon area, 106 from the north, 76 from the Regina area and 12 from the central region.
cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Forty-eight cases are health care workers, however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Eighty-three cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. A total of 209 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 181 are in the 40-59 age range, 99 are in the 60-79 age range and 18 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-one per cent are males and 49 per cent are females.
Six deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported.
Of the 590 cases in the province, 139 cases are travellers, 304 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 68 have no known exposures and 79 are under investigation by local public health.
To date, 39,233 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of May 13, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 30,366 people tested per million population, which is slightly below the national rate of 31,915 people tested per million population.
