As of April 10, 2020, Saskatchewan has six new confirmed cases and one new presumptive case of COVID-19, bringing the total to 285 reported cases.
The information was released by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health on Friday afternoon.
The one new presumptive case was indeterminate (neither positive nor negative) and is being sent to the National Microbiology Laboratory for further testing.
Of the total number of reported cases, 146 cases are considered active.
Twenty-one more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 136.
There are eight people in hospital in the province. Six people are receiving inpatient care and two people are in intensive care.
Of the 285 cases in the province, 123 cases are travel related, 103 are contacts or linked to mass gatherings, 22 have no known exposures and 36 are under investigation by local public health.
Overall in Saskatchewan, 30 of the cases are health care workers, but the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
Fifteen of the cases are in the south region, the same number as the past few days, 142 of the cases are from the Saskatoon area, 60 from the Regina area, 52 from the north, 10 from the central region and six from the far north.
Seventeen cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. A total of 124 cases are in the 20-44 age range, 96 are in the 45-64 age range and 48 are in the 65-plus range.
Fifty-four per cent of the cases are males and 46 per cent are females.
The number of people in Saskatchewan who have died from COVID-19 remains at three.
To date, 17,634 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. Saskatchewan continues to have the second highest rate of testing per capita among the provinces.
