There is one new case of COVID-19 to report on July 3, according to the Ministry of Health, bringing the provincial total to 796 cases. The new case is in the far north.
Of the 796 reported COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan, 71, or about nine per cent, are considered active.
Ten more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 711. Approximately 89.3 per cent of people diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered.
Four people are in hospital. One individual is receiving inpatient care in Saskatoon. Three people are in intensive care: two in the north and one in Saskatoon.
Sixty-four cases have been diagnosed in the south region. Eighteen are considered active. There have been 335 cases from the far north, 187 from the Saskatoon area, 118 from the north, 80 from the Regina area and 12 from the Central region.
Of the 796 cases in the province, 165 cases are travellers, 479 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 109 have no known exposures and 43 are under investigation by local public health.
Fifty-five cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
A total of 116 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, 278 cases are in the 20-39 age range, 249 are in the 40-59 age range, 132 are in the 60-79 age range and 21 are in the 80-plus range.
Fifty-one per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
Fourteen deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported.
To date, 67,791 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 1, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 50,432 people tested per million population. The national rate was 75,773 people tested per million population.
