There are five new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on July 19, the Ministry of Health said, bringing the total to 943 cases.
Four new cases are in the central region, and one is in the Saskatoon area.
Three more cases reported on July 11 as positive have been updated to a negative result and have been removed from the total cases, bringing the total to four cases removed.
One more person has recovered. Of the 943 reported cases, 129 are considered active. A total of 799 people have recovered.
Twelve people are in hospital. Nine people are receiving inpatient care; five in Saskatoon, three in the south and one in the north. Three people are in intensive care; two in Saskatoon and one in the south.
A total of 115 cases have been diagnosed in the south. There have been 340 cases from the far north, 206 are from the Saskatoon area, 123 from the north, 87 from the Regina area and 72 from the central region.
Of the 943 cases in the province, 183 cases are travellers, 516 are community contacts (including mass gatherings, 165 have no known exposures and 79 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 131 cases involving people 19 years of age and under,325 cases in the 20-39 age range, 297 in the 40-59 age range; 162 in the 60-79 age range and 28 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, 81,624 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 17, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 59,544 people tested per million population. The national rate was 92,628 people tested per million population.
There have been 2,634 COVID-19 tests performed in Saskatchewan over the past two days: 1,339 on Saturday and 1,295 on Sunday. This represents the two highest daily testing totals to date.
