There are five new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on July 14, according to the Ministry of Health, bringing the total to 876 cases. Three of the new cases are in the central region, one is in the Saskatoon region and one is in the Regina region.
Of the 876 reported cases, 76, or about 8.7 per cent, are considered active.
Nineteen more people have recovered, bring the total number of recoveries to 785, or about 89.6 per cent of people diagnosed.
Six people are in hospital. Four people are receiving inpatient care, all in Saskatoon. Two people are in intensive care, one in Saskatoon and one in the south.
Eighty-three people in the south region have been diagnosed. Eighteen cases are considered active. There have been 339 cases from the far north, 199 from the Saskatoon area, 120 from the north, 85 from the Regina area and 50 from the central region.
Of the 876 cases in the province, 176 cases are travellers, 493 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 132 have no known exposures and 75 are under investigation by local public health.
Fifty-eight cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
A total of 121 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, 310 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 270 are in the 40-59 age range, 151 are in the 60-79 age range and 24 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-two per cent of the cases are females and 48 per cent are males.
Fifteen deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported.
To date, 75,774 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 12, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 55,918 people tested per million population. The national rate was 86,663 people tested per million population.
