Saskatchewan has six new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday, bringing the provincial total to 326.
Sixty-one of the cases, or 18.7 per cent, are considered active. Nine more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 261.
Saskatchewan’s recovery rate now stands at 80 per cent.
Currently, there are five people in hospitals across the province. Four people are receiving inpatient care, while one person is in intensive care.
Of the 326 cases in the province, 136 cases are travellers, 135 are community contacts (mass gatherings included), 32 have no known exposures and 23 are under investigation by local public health.
The number of cases for the southern region remains at 15; that figure hasn’t changed since April 5.
As for the rest of the province, there are 150 cases from the Saskatoon area, 71 from the Regina area, 61 from the north, 11 from the central region and 18 from the far north. Five of the six new cases are from the far north.
Thirty-six of the cases are health care workers, however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Twenty-six cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. There are 117 cases in the 20-39 age range, 110 in the 40-59 age range; 64 in the 60-79 age range and nine in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-two per cent of the cases are males and 48 per cent are females.
The number of deaths in the province from COVID-19 remains at four.
To date, 25,321 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. Per capita, Saskatchewan’s testing rate of 21,428 tests per million population exceeds the national rate of 15,038 tests per million population.
Case surveillance and testing information, including regional locations of confirmed cases, is available at www.saskatchewan.ca/COVID19.
