There are 50 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on July 29, bringing the total to 1,268 cases, the Ministry of Health said Wednesday.
Forty-four of the new cases are located in the north. Three are in the south, two are in the Regina area and one is in the central region.
Of the 50 cases, 44 are from one communal living setting.
The Ministry of Health says the reported case increase is a result of aggressive contact tracing and increased testing, which is encouraged as Saskatchewan residents help prevent transmission of COVID-19.
Of the 1,268 reported cases, 322, or 25.4 per cent, are considered active.
Twenty-two more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 929. Approximately 73.2 per cent of people diagnosed with COVID-19 are listed as recovered.
Fifteen people are in hospital. Ten people are receiving inpatient care; three in Saskatoon, two in the central region, four in the south and one in Regina. Five people are in intensive care, three in Saskatoon and two in Regina.
A total of 270 cases are from the south; 143 are considered active. As for the rest of the province, 347 cases are from the far north, 239 are from the Saskatoon area, 180 are from the north, 140 are from the central region and 91 are from the Regina area. One case’s location is still pending.
Of the 1,268 cases in the province, 202 cases are travellers, 617 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 299 have no known exposures and 150 are under investigation by local public health.
Sixty-one cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
There have been 202 cases involving people 19 years of age and under, 416 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 394 are in the 40-59 age range, 215 are in the 60-79 age range and 41 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-one per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
Seventeen deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported.
To date, 95,024 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 27, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 69,095 people tested per million population. The national rate was 103,732 people tested per million population.
There were 1,355 COVID-19 tests performed in Saskatchewan on Tuesday.
