Saskatchewan's Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab. (Evan Radford/980)

By paNOW Staff

COVID-19 provincial report

Eight new COVID-19 cases reported, no recoveries, 1 person in hospital

Sep 6, 2020 | 1:46 PM

The Saskatchewan Health Authority reported eight new COVID-19 cases in the province on Sunday. Three of the new cases are from the Saskatoon area, two are from the Central East, and one each are from Regina, South East and North West.

There are 1,651 reported cases, 48 of which are considered active. There were no new recoveries reported on Sunday, as they remain at 1,579.

One person is in hospital in intensive care in Saskatoon.

Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff

Of the 1,651 cases in the province:

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• 251 cases are travellers;

• 834 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);

• 488 have no known exposures; and

• 78 are under investigation by local public health

Overall in Saskatchewan:

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

• 276 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. 535 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 502 are in the 40-59 age range; 280 are in the 60-79 age range; and 58 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:

o 424 cases from the south area (217 south west, 195 south central, 12 south east)

o 353 cases from the far north area (347 far north west, 6 far north east)

o 273 cases from the Saskatoon area

o 268 cases from the north area (131 north west, 71 north central, 66 north east)

o 200 cases from the central area (164 central west, 36 central east)

o 133 cases from the Regina area

Submitted photo/Saskatchewan Health Authority

To date, 148,876 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of September 4, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 105,789 people tested per million population. The national rate was 152,592 people tested per million population.

Yesterday, 2,081 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan.

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