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COVID-19 update: one additional death, 31 more recoveries, 11 new cases

Eleven new cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in Saskatchewan, the Ministry of Health said Thursday, bringing the total to 1,387 cases. Nine of the new cases are located in the south central region.
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Eleven new cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in Saskatchewan, the Ministry of Health said Thursday, bringing the total to 1,387 cases. 

Nine of the new cases are located in the south central region. There are also individual cases in Saskatoon and the southwest zones.

Of today’s 11 reported cases, 10 are people living in communal living settings.

One more person has died from COVID-19. This person was in the Regina region and was in the 70-79 age range. Nineteen people have died from COVID-19 in Saskatchewan.

Of the 1,387 reported cases, 204, or 14.7 per cent, are considered active. 

Thirty-one people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 1,164, or 84 per cent of those diagnosed.

Thirteen people are in hospital.  Seven people are receiving inpatient care, with three in Saskatoon, two in the southwest region, one in the central east region and one in Regina. 

Six people are in intensive care: four in Saskatoon, one in Regina and one in the north central region.

Eleven cases have been diagnosed in the southeast region; three are considered active. All three active cases are in Zone 3, which is the zone for the Weyburn area. The Estevan region is in Zone 4.  

As for the rest of the province, 352 cases are from the far north zone (346 far northwest, far north central, six far northeast), 304 cases are from the south zone (150 southwest, 143 south central, 11 southeast), 226 cases are from the north zone (98 northwest, 63 north central, 65 northeast), 218 cases are from the Saskatoon zone, 187 cases are from the central zone (159 central west, 28 central east) and 100 cases are from the Regina zone.

Of the 1,387 cases in the province, 205 cases are travellers, 706 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 365 have no known exposures and 111 are under investigation by local public health.

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

There have been 218 cases involving people 19 years of age and under, 441 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 435 are in the 40-59 age range, 243 are in the 60-79 age range and 50 are in the 80-plus range.

Fifty per cent of the cases are females and 50 per cent are males.

To date, 106,019 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of Aug. 4, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 77,325 people tested per million population. The national rate was 113,666 people tested per million population.

A total of 954 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan on Wednesday.