Saskatchewan has four new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 320, the Ministry of Health said Tuesday.
Sixty-four of the cases, or 20 per cent, are considered active.
Fourteen more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 252. Saskatchewan’s recovery rate now stands at nearly 79 per cent.
Currently, there are five people in hospitals across the province. Four people are receiving inpatient care, while one person is in intensive care.
Of the 320 cases in the province, 135 cases are travellers, 134 are community contacts (mass gatherings included), 31 have no known exposures and 20 are under investigation by local public health.
The number of cases for southern Saskatchewan remains steady at 15, the same number that it’s been at for most of the month. There have been 150 cases in the Saskatoon area, 71 from the Regina area, 60 from the north, 13 from the far north and 11 from the central region.
Thirty-five of the cases are health care workers, however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Twenty-five cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. A total of 116 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 107 are in the 40-59 age range; 63 are in the 60-79 age range; and nine are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-two per cent of the cases are males and 48 per cent are females.
The number of people to die from COVID-19 in Saskatchewan remains at four.
To date, 24,811 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.
