The Ministry of Health has launched new COVID-19 maps to provide more detailed information on the location of cases across Saskatchewan.
One map has 13 regions with comprehensive statistical information for COVID-19 activity in that region. It should be noted that the 13 new regions do not have the same geographic boundaries as the previous six regions.
The second map is broken down into 32 smaller zones, and will provide new positive and current active COVID-19 case numbers for those smaller zones. Estevan and the surrounding communities are in Zone 4, which has one active case.
The Estevan and Weyburn areas are in the southeast. The southeast is then brokien up into four regions. There are four active cases in Zone 3 for the southeast, and one for Zone 4, which appears to be the zone for Estevan and the far southeast corner.
According to the map, there have been 11 cases of COVID-19 in southeast Saskatchewan since the pandemic was first diagnosed in the province back in March. Five of those cases are considered active.
There are nine new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Aug. 4, bringing the total to 1,368 cases. Four cases are in the Regina area. There are two cases in Saskatoon, and single cases in the northwest, north central and southwest regions.
Of the 1,368 reported cases, 253, or 18.4 per cent, are considered active.
Eight more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 1,097. About 80 per cent of those diagnosed are listed as recovered.
Fourteen people are in hospital. Seven people are receiving inpatient care, with three in Saskatoon, three in the southwest and one in Regina. Seven people are in intensive care; five in Saskatoon and two in Regina.
Of the 1,368 cases in the province, 204 cases are travellers, 697 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 359 have no known exposures and 108 are under investigation by local public health.
Sixty-four cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
There have been 352 cases from the far north zone (346 far north west, 0 far north central, 6 far north east), 294 cases are from the south zone (149 southwest, 134 south central, 11 southeast), 216 cases are from the Saskatoon zone, 221 from the north zone (96 northwest, 63 northcentral, 62 northeast), 186 cases are from the central zone (158 central-west, 28 central-east) and 99 cases are from the Regina zone.
A total of 213 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, 437 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 427 are in the 40-59 age range, 241 are in the 60-79 age range and 50 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty per cent of the cases are females and 50 per cent are males.
Eighteen deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
To date, 104,279 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of Aug. 2, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 76,290 people tested per million population. The national rate was 111,154 people tested per million population.
A total of 688 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan on Monday.
