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By paNOW Staff

COVID-19 provincial report

74 new COVID-19 cases reported in Saskatchewan

Nov 1, 2020 | 1:52 PM

There are 74 new COVID-19 cases reported by the Saskatchewan Health Authority on Sunday — 25 in Saskatoon, 19 in Regina, 12 in North Central, five in North West, five in Far North West, three in South East, two in Central East, and one each in the North East and South West. The remaining case has pending residence location.

The 74 new cases bring the total to 3,218 cases, with 798 active cases and 2,395 recoveries.

Thirty-three people are in hospital. Twenty-six people are receiving inpatient care; two in the North West, six in the North Central zone, two in the North East zone, 10 in the Saskatoon zone and six in the Regina zone. Seven people are in intensive care; two in the North Central zone, four in Saskatoon and one in Regina.

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Of the 3,218 cases in the province:

· 371 cases are travelers;

· 1,577 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);

· 801 have no known exposures; and

· 469 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan to date:

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

· 643 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.

· 1,171 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 910 are in the 40-59 age range; 411 are in the 60-79 age range; and 83 are in the 80-plus range.

· 51 per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.

· 25 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

· There are:

o 827 cases from the Saskatoon area

o 642 cases from the north area (198 north west, 306 north central, 138 north east)

o 504 cases from the south area (230 south west, 215 south central, 59 south east)

o 445 cases from the far north area (391 far north west, 0 far north central, 54 far north east)

o 414 cases from the Regina area

o 383 cases from the central area (196 central west, 187 central east)

o Three cases have pending residence location

To date, 265,803 COVID-19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of October 29, 2020 when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 176,818 people tested per million population. The national rate was 251,039 people tested per million population.

Yesterday, 2,750 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan.

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