Saskatchewan has four new cases of COVID-19, the provincial Ministry of Health announced Sunday, bringing the provincial total to 353.
Three out of the four new cases today are in the north and one is in the Regina area.
Sixty-one of the 353 cases, or about 17 per cent, are considered active. Recoveries remain at 288 people.
Seventy-nine per cent of people diagnosed with COVID-19 in Saskatchewan are now classified as recovered.
There are currently five people in hospitals across the province. Three people are receiving inpatient care and two people are in intensive care.
Of the 353 cases in the province, 138 cases are travellers, 148 are contacts or linked to mass gatherings, 35 have no known exposures and 32 are under investigation by local public health.
The number of cases for the south region remains at 15. A total of 150 of the cases are from the Saskatoon area, 74 are from the Regina area, 68 are from the north, 11 are from the central region and 35 are from the far north.
Thirty-eight 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. A total of 126 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 120 are in the 40-59 age range, 67 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.
To date, 27,884 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of April 24, when other provincial and national numbers are available from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 21,880 people tested per million population and exceeds the national rate of 17,812 people tested per million population.
