Saskatchewan has seven new confirmed cases and two new presumptive cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 298 reported cases, the Ministry of Health said Sunday.
The presumptive positives are due to more testing machines being added in Saskatchewan.
A new machine to test for COVID-19 is online at the Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory (RRPL). The first 10 positive specimens identified by the new machine must be considered presumptive positives and require confirmation using RRPL’s existing machine.
In addition, Meadow Lake has started testing and these cases are considered presumptive positives until confirmed by the RRPL.
Of the total number of reported cases, 130 cases are considered active.
Seventeen more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 164. Approximately 55 per cent of the people diagnosed with COVID-19 in Saskatchewan have recovered.
There are seven people in hospital in the province who are all receiving inpatient care. No one is in intensive care.
Of the 298 cases in the province, 129 are travel related, 112 are contacts or linked to mass gatherings, 25 have no known exposures and 32 are under investigation by local public health.
The number of cases in southern Saskatchewan remains stable at 15. Among the cases, 147 are from the Saskatoon area, 63 are from the Regina area, 56 from the north, 10 from the central region and seven from the far north.
Thirty-two of the cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Twenty cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
A total of 129 cases are in the 20-44 age range, 99 are in the 45-64 age range and 50 are in the 65-plus range.
Fifty-three per cent of the cases are males and 47 per cent are females.
The provincial death toll due to COVID-19 remains at four.
To date, 19,276 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. Saskatchewan continues to have the second highest rate of testing per capita among provinces that have reported.
Case surveillance and testing information, including regional locations of cases, is available at www.saskatchewan.ca/COVID19.
