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Five new cases of COVID-19 in province, 11 straight days of single-digit new cases

Aug 27, 2020 | 2:12 PM

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is reporting five new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, making it 11 consecutive days that new cases have stuck in the single digits. In that span, the highest cases announced in one day has been six.

Three of Thursday’s new cases are from the North West region, with the other two coming from the Saskatoon area.

Of the 1,609 total cases to date, 1,527 have recovered. There are 58 active cases in the province — half of which are from communal living settings.

Three people are in hospital. One person is receiving inpatient care in Saskatoon and two people are in intensive care in Saskatoon.

Of the 1,609 cases in the province:

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• 234 cases are travellers;

• 822 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);

• 484 have no known exposures; and

• 69 are under investigation by local public health

The active cases of COVID-19 in the province. (submitted photo/Saskatchewan Health Authority)

Overall in Saskatchewan:

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

• 266 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. 517 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 492 are in the 40-59 age range; 277 are in the 60-79 age range; and 57 are in the 80-plus range.

• 51 per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.

• 24 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

There are:

• 413 cases from the south area (213 south west, 189 south central, 11 south east)
• 352 cases from the far north area (346 far north west, 6 far north east)
• 262 cases from the north area (128 north west, 68 north central, 66 north east)
• 256 cases from the Saskatoon area
• 194 cases from the central area (161 central west, 33 central east)
• 132 cases from the Regina area
  A graph of the latest COVID-19 data in Saskatchewan as of Aug. 27. (submitted photo/SHA)

To date, 134,772 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of August 25, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 96,775 people tested per million population. The national rate was 139,570 people tested per million population.

Yesterday, 1,254 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan.