There are 34 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Oct. 13, bringing the total to 2,174 cases.
Eleven new cases are in the Regina zone. Nine are in the north central region, eight are in the Saskatoon region and four are in central west. The locations of two cases are pending.
Public health investigations continue to follow up on all new cases to determine if they have links to known events or if they are new transmissions within the community.
Of the 2,174 reported cases, 238, or about 11 per cent, are considered active.
Eleven people have recovered, bringing the Saskatchewan total to 1,911 recoveries, or about 88 per cent of those diagnosed.
Nine people are in hospital. Seven people are receiving inpatient care; four in Saskatoon, one in Regina, one in north central and one in central east. One person is in intensive care in Regina and one person is in intensive care in Saskatoon.
There have been 465 cases from the south area (226 southwest, 207 south central, 32 southeast). Eleven of the cases in the southeast are considered active; 10 are from Southeast Zone 4, which includes Estevan.
As for the rest of the province, 450 cases are from the Saskatoon area, 375 cases are from the far north area (356 far northwest, zero far northcentral, 19 far northeast), 388 cases are from the north area (140 northwest, 127 north central, 71 northeast), 314 cases are from the central area (187 central west, 127 central east), and 230 cases are from the Regina area.
Of the 2,174 cases in the province to date, 317 cases are travellers, 1,066 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 613 have no known exposures and 178 are under investigation by local public health.
Seventy-eight cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
A total of 373 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, 726 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 658 are in the 40-59 age range, 347 are in the 60-79 age range and 70 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-one per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
Twenty-five deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported.
To date, 218,959 COVID-19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of Oct. 11, when other provincial and national numbers are available from Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 151,482 people tested per million population. The national rate was 217,924 people tested per million population.
There were 2,037 COVID-19 tests performed in Saskatchewan on Monday.
