A warning sign outside a local business  in Prince Albert during the COVID-19 pandemic. (File photo/paNOW Staff)

By paNOW Staff

COVID-19 report

Almost twice as many recoveries as new COVID-19 cases in Sask. on Sunday

Apr 12, 2020 | 2:11 PM

There are seven new confirmed COVID-19 cases and two new presumptive cases in Saskatchewan, bringing the provincial total up to 298 reported cases as of April 12.

There was another big uptick in recoveries as the province reported 17 people have returned to health. There are now 34 more recoveries in Saskatchewan than active cases (164-130).

There are seven people in hospital in the province, who are all receiving inpatient care. No one is in intensive care.

New COVID-19 data in Saskatchewan as of Sunday, April 12. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW)

Of the 298 cases in the province:

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• 129 cases are travel-related;

• 112 are contacts or linked to mass gatherings;

• 25 have no known exposures; and

• 32 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan:

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

• 147 of the cases are from the Saskatoon area, 63 from the Regina area, 56 from the north, 15 from the south, 10 from the central region and seven from the far north.

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

• 129 cases are in the 20-44 age range; 99 are in the 45-64 age range; and 50 are in the 65-plus range.

• 53 per cent of the cases are males and 47 per cent are females.

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

The COVID-19 total cases shown by region. saskatchewan.ca

To date, 19,276 COVID-19 tests have been performed in the province. Saskatchewan continues to have the second-highest rate of testing per capita among provinces that have reported.

A new COVID-19 testing machine is online at the Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory in Regina (RRPL). Meadow Lake has also recently begun testing. The first 10 positive specimens identified by these new machines must be considered presumptive positives until they are confirmed using RRPL’s existing machine.

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