There are six new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Sept. 10, the Ministry of Health said Thursday, bringing the total to 1,676 reported cases.
There is one new case in each of the far northeast, Saskatoon, central west, central east and Regina zones. The location of the sixth case is pending.
Of the 1,676 reported cases, 59, or 3.5 per cent, are considered active.
Six more people have recovered, bringing the total to 1,593 people, or 95 per cent of those diagnosed.
One person is in hospital receiving inpatient care in Saskatoon.
There have been 428 cases from the south area (218 southwest, 197 south central and 13 southeast). Two cases in the southeast are considered active; neither of them are from Estevan’s zone.
As for the rest of the province, 356 cases are from the far north area (349 far northwest, seven far northeast), 278 cases are from the Saskatoon area, 270 cases are from the north area (131 northwest, 73 north central, 66 northeast), 205 cases are from the central area (167 central west, 38 central east), and 138 cases from the Regina area.
Of the 1,676 cases in the province, 257 cases are travellers, 839 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 498 have no known exposures and 82 are under investigation by local public health.
Sixty-nine cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
A total of 280 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, 542 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 511 are in the 40-59 age range, 285 are in the 60-79 age range and 58 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-one per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
Twenty-four deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
To date, 153,649 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of Sept. 8, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 109,722 people tested per million population. The national rate was 157,754 people tested per million population.
There were 1,120 COVID-19 tests performed in Saskatchewan on Wednesday.
