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Two new COVID-19 cases, five people currently in hospital

Aug 22, 2020 | 1:56 PM

The Saskatchewan Health Authority has two new COVID-19 cases to report on Saturday, one in Saskatoon and the other in the South West region.

That puts the reported case total up to 1,597, 117 of which are considered active. There have been 1,458 recoveries to date.

Five people are in hospital. One person is receiving inpatient care and four people are in intensive care, all in Saskatoon.

Investigations completed thus far have found that 76 of 117 active cases are in communal living settings.

Active COVID-19 cases in the province, divided in zones. Submitted photo, Saskatchewan Health Authority

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Of the 1,597 cases in the province:

· 231 cases are travellers;

· 823 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);

· 479 have no known exposures; and

· 64 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan:

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

· There are:

· 412 cases from the south area (212 south west, 189 south central, 11 south east)

· 352 cases from the far north area (346 far north west, zero far north central, six far north east)

· 257 cases from the north area (123 north west, 68 north central, 66 north east)

· 251 cases from the Saskatoon area

· 194 cases from the central area (161 central west, 33 central east)

· 131 cases from the Regina area

· 261 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. 514 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 491 are in the 40-59 age range; 275 are in the 60-79 age range; and 56 are in the 80-plus range.

Fifty-one per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.

There are 22 deaths related to COVID-19 reported to date.

To date, 129,653 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of August 20, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 92,969 people tested per million population. The national rate was 133,923 people tested per million population.

Yesterday, 1,757 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan.

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