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COVID-19

15 news cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, 46 more recoveries

Aug 1, 2020 | 2:09 PM

The Government of Saskatchewan has reported 15 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 1,334. There are four more cases in the North region and none in the Far North.

Fourteen of the 15 new cases are in Saskatchewan, and one additional case was from a Saskatchewan resident tested out of province.

The new rest of the new cases are located in Saskatoon (3), South (7) and Regina (1) regions. Of the 15 cases reported today, investigations completed thus far have found nine cases are from multiple communal living settings across the province.

Of the 1,334 reported cases, 262 are considered active. There are 46 more recoveries announced today for a total of 1,054 recoveries.

Fourteen people are in hospital. Eight people are receiving inpatient care; four in Saskatoon, one in the Central region, two in the South and one in Regina. Six people are in intensive care; one in the North, three in Saskatoon and two in Regina.

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The latest numbers of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan. (Aaron Schulze/northeastnow Staff)

Of the 1,334 cases in the province 203 cases are travellers, 678 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 347 have no known exposures and 106 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan 63 cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.

There have been 365 new cases reported in the last 11 days since the single biggest daily surge on July 22, with many of these cases centred in the South region. (Government of Saskatchewan)

In the province 348 of the cases are from the Far North, 289 from the South, 248 are from the Saskatoon area, 197 from the North, 160 from the Central region and 92 from the Regina area.

Two hundred and twelve cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.

In Saskatchewan 429 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 419 are in the 40-59 age range; 227 are in the 60-79 age range; and 47 are in the 80-plus range.

COVID-19 cases map. (Government of Saskatchewan)

Fifty per cent of the cases are females and 50 per cent are males.

Eighteen deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

To date, 100,317 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 30, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 72,568 people tested per million population. The national rate was 107,753 people tested per million population.

Yesterday, 1,807 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan. This is the highest daily number of tests performed to date.

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