There is one new case of COVID-19 in southeast Saskatchewan, the Ministry of Health said Monday.
The new case for the southeast is in Zone 4, which is the far southeast corner of the province and includes Estevan. Zone 4 spans from as far west as Torquay to the Manitoba border, and from the U.S. border to areas north of Highway 13.
There are currently five active cases in the southeast, with four in Zone 4. A total of 18 cases have been diagnosed in the southeast region since the first case of the virus in Saskatchewan in mid-March.
The exact location of the new case was not specified. It's not known if any of the four active cases in Zone 4 are connected.
Five of the new cases in Saskatchewan are in the Saskatoon area, and one is in the Regina region.
Three of the new cases reported today in the Saskatoon area are associated with the workplace outbreak previously identified at Brandt Industries. To date, there have been 17 cases linked to that workplace.
Of the 1,814 reported cases, 145, or about eight per cent, are considered active.
Two more people have recovered, bringing the Saskatchewan total to 1,645 people, or about 90.6 per cent of those diagnosed.
There have been 439 cases are from the south area (222 southwest, 199 south central, 18 southeast).
As for the rest of the province, 357 cases are from the far north area (349 far northwest, eight far northeast); 353 cases are from the Saskatoon area; 271 cases are from the north area (131 northwest, 73 north central, 67 northeast); 234 cases are from the central area (172 central west, 62 central east); and 160 cases are from the Regina area.
Investigations completed thus far have found that 27 of the 145 current active cases are from communal living settings.
A total of 10 people are in hospital. Nine people are receiving inpatient care; seven of those are in Saskatoon, one is in Regina and one is in the south central zone. One person is in intensive care in Saskatoon.
Of the 1,814 cases in the province to date, 271 cases are travellers, 887 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 525 have no known exposures and 131 are under investigation by local public health.
Sixty-nine cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
A total of 303 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, 591 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 561 are in the 40-59 age range, 298 are in the 60-79 age range and 61 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty per cent of the cases are females and 50 per cent are males.
Twenty-four deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported.
To date, 173,764 COVID-19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of Sept. 19, when other provincial and national numbers are available from Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 122,761 people tested per million population. The national rate was 176,074 people tested per million population.
A total of 1,819 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan on Sunday.
