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By paNOW Staff

COVID-19 provincial report

Twenty-one new cases, 4 more recoveries from COVID-19 in the province

Sep 12, 2020 | 2:01 PM

There are 21 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Saturday, Sept. 12 bringing the total to 1,709 reported cases. Of the new cases, 14 are from the Central East zone, while Saskatoon accounts for five and South West has two new cases.

There are now 83 active cases, 1,709 total cases, and 1,602 recoveries.

Two people are in hospital receiving inpatient care in Saskatoon.

Investigations completed thus far have found that 15 of the 21 new cases reported today and 33 of the 83 current active cases are from communal living settings.

COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan as of Sept.12/20. (submitted photo/Gov’t of Sask)

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Of the 1,709 cases in the province:

• 257 cases are travellers;

• 845 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);

• 515 have no known exposures; and

• 92 are under investigation by local public health

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Overall in Saskatchewan:

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

• 283 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.

• 560 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 519 are in the 40-59 age range; 289 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 430 cases from the south area (220 south west, 197 south central, 13 south east)

o 357 cases from the far north area (349 far north west, 8 far north east)

o 287 cases from the Saskatoon area

o 270 cases from the north area (131 north west, 73 north central, 66 north east)

o 226 cases from the central area (167 central west, 59 central east)

o 139 cases from the Regina area

To date, 156,876 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of September 10, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 112,628 people tested per million population. The national rate was 160,853 people tested per million population.

Yesterday, 1,544 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan.

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