Saskatchewan has six new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health said Saturday, bringing the provincial total to 421.
Four of the new cases are in the north (two in the Lloydminster area and two in the Prince Albert area), one is in the Saskatoon area and one is in the Regina area.
There are eight locally identified presumptive positive cases from the La Loche area. These cases are not yet being reported by the Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory, so are not yet included in the total figures reported today.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has advised of an outbreak in Beauval in the northern part of the province. A contact tracing investigation is underway.
Of the 421 reported cases, 113, or 27 per cent, are considered active. Five more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 302.
Seventy-two per cent of Saskatchewan residents diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered.
There are currently 12 people in hospital; 10 are receiving inpatient care (five in the north region and five in Saskatoon) and two are in intensive care in Saskatoon.
Of the 421 cases in the province, 138 cases are travellers, 170 are community contacts (mass gatherings included), 39 have no known exposures and 74 are under investigation by local public health.
The number of cases in the south region remains unchanged at 15. It’s been four weeks since the last diagnosed case of COVID-19 in the south. A total of 157 of the cases are from the Saskatoon area, 85 are from the north, 76 are from the Regina area, 77 are from the far north and 11 are from the central region.
Thirty-nine cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. A total of 153 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 140 are in the 40-59 age range, 75 are in the 60-79 age range and 14 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty per cent of the cases are males and 50 per cent are females.
Six deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported in Saskatchewan.
To date, 30,845 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of April 30, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 24,196 people tested per million population, which exceeds the national rate of 22,140 people tested per million population.
