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COVID-19 report

Five new cases of COVID-19 reported as upward trend continue

Jul 19, 2020 | 2:09 PM

Five new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Sunday by the Saskatchewan Health Authority — four of which are from the Central region and one is from Saskatoon.

There are now 943 total cases, 129 active cases and 799 recoveries to date.

Twelve people are in hospital. Nine people are receiving inpatient care; five in Saskatoon, three in the South and one in the North. Three people are in intensive care; two in Saskatoon and one in the South.

The COVID-19 cases in the province. Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff

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Since June 15, there have been 294 new cases reported in the province —130 of those in the past week.

The SHA said a “public health investigation is ongoing to determine transmission chains and to identify contacts.”

Most of the new cases have been in the southwest and west-central areas of the province, but the SHA cautioned everybody in all areas of Saskatchewan could be at risk.

“This is why everyone must continue to take precautions and follow public health measures,” the SHA said in their Sunday statement.

The active cases of COVID-19 in the province, divided by region. Saskatchewan Health Authority.

More corrections

Three more cases initially reported as positive on July 11 have been changed to negative cases and were removed from the total. Four cases have now been updated to negative.

Of the 943 cases in the province:

• 183 cases are travellers;

• 516 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);

• 165 have no known exposures; and

• 79 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan:

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

• 340 cases are from the Far North, 206 are from the Saskatoon area, 123 from the North, 115 from the South, 87 from the Regina area and 72 from the Central region.

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

• 325 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 297 are in the 40-59 age range; 162 are in the 60-79 age range; and 28 are in the 80-plus range.

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

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

To date, 81,624 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 17, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 59,544 people tested per million population. The national rate was 92,628 people tested per million population.

There have been 2,634 COVID-19 tests performed in Saskatchewan over the past two days: 1,339 on Saturday; and 1,295 on Sunday. This represents the two highest daily testing totals to date.

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