Saskatchewan has 10 new cases of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health announced Friday, bringing the provincial total to 341.
The total number of cases includes one new presumptive positive case. A presumptive case reported and counted on April 23 has now been confirmed.
Fifty-seven of the 341 cases, or less than 17 per cent, are considered active. Ten more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 280 recoveries.
The provincial recovery rate now stands of 82.1 per cent.
There are currently five people in hospitals across the province. Three people are receiving inpatient care and two people are in intensive care.
Of the 341 cases in the province, 136 cases are travellers, 145 are contacts or linked to mass gatherings, 34 have no known exposures and 26 are under investigation by local public health.
Fifteen of the cases are in southern Saskatchewan. The number has not changed since the first weekend of April.
A total of 150 of the cases are from the Saskatoon area, 73 are from the Regina area, 64 are from the north, 11 are from the central region and 28 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 121 cases in the 20-39 age range, 117 in the 40-59 age range, 66 in the 60-79 age range and 11 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-one per cent of the cases are males and 49 per cent are females.
Four deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
To date, 26,586 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. Per capita, Saskatchewan’s testing rate of 22,499 tests per million population exceeds the national rate of 16,755 tests per million population.
Case surveillance and testing information, including regional locations of confirmed cases, is available at www.saskatchewan.ca/COVID19.
