Sask. COVID-19 update: one additional death, 42 new cases, 13 more recoveries
There are 42 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on July 23, the Ministry of Health said Thursday, bringing the total to 1,072 cases.
Twenty-three cases are in the south. There are also 11 in the central region, three in north, three in the far north and two in the Saskatoon region.
One person from the north who tested positive for COVID-19 has died. This person was in the 60-69 age range. Sixteen people in Saskatchewan have now died due to COVID-19.
Of the 42 cases reported today, 17 are from colonies in the southwest and west central regions where there were existing cases. There are currently 15 Hutterite communities with active cases in both the southwest and west central regions.
Of the 1,072 reported cases, 218 are considered active. A total of 838 people have recovered.
Thirteen people are in hospital. Nine people are receiving inpatient care; five in Saskatoon, two in the north, one in the south and one in Regina. Four people are in intensive care; three in Saskatoon and one in the south.
There have been 196 cases in the south; 111 are considered active. As for the rest of the province, 347 of the cases are from the far north, 218 are from the Saskatoon area, 128 are from the North, 96 are from the Central region and 87 from the Regina area.
Of the 1,072 cases in the province, 192 cases are travellers, 559 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 205 have no known exposures and 116 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.
There have been 161 cases involving people 19 years of age and under, 359 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 335 are in the 40-59 age range, 183 are in the 60-79 age range and 34 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-one per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
To date, 86,384 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 21, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 62,798 people tested per million population. The national rate was 97,362 people tested per million population.
