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Number of COVID-19 recoveries once again outpacing new cases in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan has five new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 573, the Ministry of Health said in a news release Tuesday afternoon. All of the new cases are in the far north (three in the Beauval area and two in La Loche).
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Saskatchewan has five new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 573, the Ministry of Health said in a news release Tuesday afternoon.

All of the new cases are in the far north (three in the Beauval area and two in La Loche).  Of the 573 reported cases, 193, or 34 per cent, are considered active.

Eleven more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 374. Sixty-five per cent of Saskatchewan residents diagnosed with COVID-19 have now recovered.

There are currently 11 people in hospital – eight are receiving inpatient care (five in the north and three in Saskatoon) and three are in intensive care (all in Saskatoon).

The number of cases diagnosed in the south region has remained at 15 since April 4. There are no active cases in the south, and none in the Regina area, either, where 76 cases have happened. One of the 12 cases in the central region is considered active.  

There are 202 cases from the far north, 163 from the Saskatoon area and 105 from the north.

Of the 573 cases in the province, 139 cases are travellers, 295 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 64 have no known exposures and 75 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan, 48 cases are health care workers, however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances. Seventy-nine cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. There have been 201 cases in the 20-39 age range, 178 in the 40-59 age range, 98 in the 60-79 age range and 17 are in the 80-plus range.

Fifty per cent of the cases are females and 50 per cent are males.
Six deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported.

To date, 37,695 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of May 10, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 29,448 people tested per million population, which is just below the national rate of 29,770 people tested per million population.

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