Saskatchewan has 13 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 544, the Ministry of Health said Friday.
Twelve of the new cases are in the far north, all in the La Loche area, while the remaining one is in the north region.
Of the 544 reported cases, 203, or 37 per cent, are considered active.
Six more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 335. The provincial recovery rate is now at about 62 per cent.
There are currently 19 people in hospital – 15 are receiving inpatient care (six in the north and nine in Saskatoon) and four are in intensive care (three in Saskatoon and one in the north).
Of the 544 cases in the province, 138 cases are travellers, 260 are community contacts (mass gatherings included), 56 have no known exposures and 90 are under investigation by local public health.
The number of cases in southern Saskatchewan remains unchanged at 15. There have been 179 of the cases are from the far north, 163 are from the Saskatoon area, 100 from the north, 76 from the Regina area, and 11 from the central region.
Overall in Saskatchewan, 44 cases are health care workers, however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Seventy-two cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. There have been 192 cases in the 20-39 age range, 171 in the 40-59 age range, 93 in the 60-79 age range and 16 in the 80-plus range.
Fifty per cent of the cases are females and 50 per cent are males.
Six deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported.
To date, 35,176 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of May 6, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 27,184 people tested per million population, which exceeds the national rate of 26,665 people tested per million population.
