Two residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. Both individuals were in the 80-plus age group. One of the deaths is in the southeast region and the other is in the south central.
No further information was immediately available.
There are 325 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Nov. 30, bringing the provincial total to date to 8,564 cases.
Thirteen cases are in the southeast region. One of the new cases is in Southeast Zone 4, which includes Estevan. There are two new cases in Zone 3, which includes Weyburn, and 10 in Zone 1, in the northwest corner of the region.
Zone 4 has 19 active cases, while the southeast region as a whole has 177 active cases. Most of those cases, 133, are in Zone 1.
There have been 286 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in the southeast since mid-March.
New cases in Saskatchewan are in the far northwest (9), far northeast (14), northwest (23), north central (27), northeast (9), Saskatoon region (125), central west (1), central east (10), Regina region (62), southwest (22) and south central (8). Two (2) new cases have pending residence information.
Single cases of pending residence information were assigned to the far northwest, northwest, north central and Regina zones.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 263 (21. 7 new cases per 100,000 population).
Of the 8,564 reported cases, 3,879, or 45.3 per cent, are considered active.
Forty-nine more people have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 4,638, or 54.2 per cent of those diagnosed.
One-hundred and twenty-three people are in hospital. One hundred people are receiving inpatient care; one in the far northwest, eight in the northwest, eight in the north central, three in the northeast, 33 in Saskatoon, one in the central east, 26 in Regina, one in the southwest, one in south central and 18 in the southeast zone.
Twenty-three people are in intensive care: three in the north central, 14 in Saskatoon and six in Regina.
Forty-seven deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
A total of 4,251 COVID-19 tests were processed in Saskatchewan on Sunday, with 188 of them from the southeast.
