Saskatchewan has 34 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 467, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday.
Twenty-nine of the new cases are in the far north (La Loche and surrounding area), four of the new cases are in the north and one is in the Saskatoon area.
The locally reported presumptive positive cases noted on May 2 have now been confirmed and are accounted for in the total number of cases.
Of the 467 reported cases, 154 are considered active. Two more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 307.
There are currently 11 people in hospital. Seven are receiving inpatient care (two in the north region and five in Saskatoon) and four are in intensive care (three in Saskatoon and one in the north).
Of the 467 cases in the province, 138 cases are travellers, 182 are community contacts (mass gatherings included), 40 have no known exposures and 107 are under investigation by local public health.
The number of cases in the south remains at 15. It’s been a month since the last case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in southern Saskatchewan. There are 162 of cases from the Saskatoon area, 110 from the far north, 93 from the north, 76 from the Regina area, 15 from the south, and 11 from the central region.
Forty-three cases are health care workers, however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Fifty-one cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. Among adults, 167 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 152 are in the 40-59 age range, 82 are in the 60-79 age range and 15 are in the 80-plus range.
Forty-nine per cent of the cases are males and 51 per cent are females.
Six deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
To date, 32,334 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of May 2, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 25,116 people tested per million population, which exceeds the national rate of 23,770 people tested per million population.
