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COVID-19 report

No new COVID-19 cases in Sask., 12 recoveries

Jun 7, 2020 | 1:59 PM

The Saskatchewan Health Authority had some good news to present on Sunday. Not only were there not any new confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported, but 12 people recovered from the virus as well.

That puts the active cases down to 16 in the province. Three of the six regions have one active case or less (none in Central region, one in the North, one in the South). Saskatoon has two, Regina has four and the Far North has eight active cases.

There have been 623 total recoveries and 650 total reported cases.

There is one person in intensive care in Saskatoon.

The cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)

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Of the 650 cases in the province:

• 143 cases are travellers;

• 391 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);

• 79 have no known exposures; and

• 37 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan:

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

• 259 of the cases are from the Far North, 170 are from the Saskatoon area, 112 from the North, 80 from the Regina area, 17 from the South and 12 from the Central region.

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

• 230 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 199 are in the 40-59 age range; 106 are in the 60-79 age range; and 18 are in the 80-plus range.

• 52 per cent of the cases are females and 48 per cent are males.

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

The cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, divided by region. (supplied/Saskatchewan Health Authority.)

To date, 51,693 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. As of June 5, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were last available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 39,267 people tested per million population. The national rate was 49,702 people tested per million population.

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