There is one new case of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan to report, the Ministry of Health said Sunday, bringing the provincial total to 665. The new case is in Saskatoon.
Of the 665 reported COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan, 24, or about 3.6 per cent, are considered active. A total of 628 individuals have recovered.
About 94.4 per cent of cases reported in Saskatchewan are considered to be recovered.
There is currently one person in inpatient care in the north and one person in intensive care in Saskatoon.
Nineteen cases have been diagnosed in the south region. Two are considered active. There have been 264 cases from the far north, 178 from the Saskatoon area, 112 from the north, 80 from the Regina area and 12 from the central region.
Of the 665 cases in the province, 146 cases are travellers, 401 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 80 have no known exposures and 38 are under investigation by local public health.
Overall in Saskatchewan, 51 cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Ninety-eight cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
A total of 237 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 200 are in the 40-59 age range, 112 are in the 60-79 age range and 18 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-two per cent of the cases are females and 48 per cent are males.
Thirteen deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported.
To date, 55,656 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of June 12, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 42,072 people tested per million population. The national rate was 56,237 people tested per million population.
