Saskatchewan has one new confirmed case of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health announced Thursday, bringing the provincial total to 305.
Eighty-two of the cases are considered active.
Fourteen more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 219. Saskatchewan’s recovery rate is now nearly 72 per cent.
Currently, there are seven people in hospitals across the province receiving inpatient care. No one is in intensive care.
Of the 305 cases in the province, 132 cases are travellers, 124 are community contacts (mass gatherings included), 29 have no known exposures and 20 are under investigation by local public health.
The number of cases in the south region remains steady at 15. There are 147 cases from the Saskatoon area, 68 from the Regina area, 58 from the north, 10 from the central region and seven from the far north.
Thirty-four of the cases are health care workers, but the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Twenty-two cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
There have been 131 cases are in the 20-44 age range; 101 are in the 45-64 age range; and 51 are in the 65-plus range.
Fifty-two per cent of the cases are males and 48 per cent are females.
The number of deaths in the province related to COVID-19 remains at four.
To date, 21,569 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. Saskatchewan continues to have the second highest rate of testing per capita among the provinces.
Case surveillance and testing information, including regional locations of confirmed cases, is available at www.saskatchewan.ca/COVID19.
