A resident of northern Saskatchewan who tested positive for COVID-19 has died. The individual was in their 20s. This brings the total number of deaths in the province to 15.
There is one new case of COVID-19 to report on July 7, bringing the total to 806 cases. The new case is a Saskatoon region resident who was tested out of province.
Of the 806 reported COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan, 54, or about 6.7 per cent, are considered active.
A total of 737 people have recovered. Approximately 91.4 per cent of people diagnosed with COVID-19 in Saskatchewan have recovered.
Four individuals are receiving inpatient care in the hospital; three in the north and one in Saskatoon. No one is in intensive care.
Sixty-six cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in the south region; nine are considered active. There have been 338 cases from the far north, 190 from the Saskatoon area, 119 from the north, 80 from the Regina area and 13 from the central region.
Of the 806 cases in the province, 168 cases are travellers, 482 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 113 have no known exposures and 43 are under investigation by local public health.
Fifty-five cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
A total of 116 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, 283 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 253 are in the 40-59 age range, 133 are in the 60-79 age range and 21 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-one per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
To date, 70,294 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 5, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 52,252 people tested per million population. The national rate was 79,164 people tested per million population.
