Saskatchewan has one new confirmed case of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health said Saturday, bringing the provincial total to 591.
The new case is in the Saskatoon region. Of the 591 reported cases, 152, or 26 per cent, are considered active.
Twenty-five more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 433. Seventy-three per cent of people diagnosed with COVID-19 in Saskatchewan have now recovered.
There are currently eight people in hospital – five are receiving inpatient care (one in the north, two in Saskatoon and two in Regina) and three are in intensive care (all in Saskatoon).
Hospitalizations are counted under the location of the hospitalization, not the patient’s residence. Active cases are included in the number for their region of residence.
The number of cases in the south remains at 15; it’s now been six weeks since the last case in the region. There have been 218 cases from the far north, 164 from the Saskatoon area, 106 from the north, 76 from the Regina area and 12 from the Central region.
Forty-eight cases are health care workers. However, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Eighty-three cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. There have been 209 cases in the 20-39 age range, 182 in the 40-59 age range, 99 in the 60-79 age range and 18 in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-one per cent of the cases are males and 49 per cent of the cases are females.
Six deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
Of the 591 cases in the province, 139 cases are travellers, 320 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 68 have no known exposures and 64 are under investigation by local public health.
To date, 40,097 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of May 14, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 30,726 people tested per million population, which is below the national rate of 32,802 people tested per million population.
The Ministry of Health says this is due to decreased demand for testing, not a drop in testing capacity, due to the success of preventative measures and the reduction in positive cases in many areas of the province.
