Saskatchewan has one new, confirmed case of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 301, the provincial Ministry of Health announced Tuesday.
A total of 110 cases are considered active. Nine more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 187.
Saskatchewan’s recovery rate is now at 62.1 per cent.
Currently, there are seven people in hospitals across the province receiving inpatient care.
Of the 301 cases in the province, 131 cases are travellers, 121 are community contacts (mass gatherings included), 27 have no known exposures and 22 are under investigation by local public health.
The number of cases in the south region remains at 15. There are 147 from the Saskatoon area, 65 from the Regina area, 57 from the north, 10 from the central region and seven from the far north.
Thirty-four of the cases are health care workers, with 19 of them now recovered. The source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Twenty-one cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. There are 129 cases are in the 20-44 age range, 100 in the 45-64 age range and 51 in the 65-plus range.
Fifty-three per cent of the cases are males and 47 per cent are females.
Four deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
To date, 20,282 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.
