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By Jeff D'Andrea

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11 new COVID-19 cases, 1 recovery, 1 in hospital

Sep 7, 2020 | 1:49 PM

The Saskatchewan Health Authority is reporting 11 new COVID-19 cases on Monday.

That’s the second time a double-digit total has been announced for a single-day increase since Aug. 17.

The new cases are spread out throughout the province, with two cases arising in the Far North West, Saskatoon, and Central West zones. The Central East, South West, South Central, and South East zones all had one new case each. The location of the 11^th case is pending.

There have now been 1,662 reported cases in Saskatchewan, 58 of which are active. There was one recovery reported on Sunday, bringing that total up to 1,580.

One person is in hospital in intensive care in Saskatoon.

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Of the 1,662 cases in the province:

• 252 cases are travellers;

• 834 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);

• 491 have no known exposures; and

• 85 are under investigation by local public health

Overall in Saskatchewan:

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

• 278 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults. 540 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 505 are in the 40-59 age range; 281 are in the 60-79 age range; and 58 are in the 80-plus range.

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

• 24 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.

• There are:

o 427 cases from the south area (218 south west, 196 south central, 13 south east)

o 355 cases from the far north area (349 far north west, 6 far north east)

o 275 cases from the Saskatoon area

o 268 cases from the north area (131 north west, 71 north central, 66 north east)

o 203 cases from the central area (166 central west, 37 central east)

o 133 cases from the Regina area

To date, 150,737 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of September 5, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 107,241 people tested per million population. The national rate was 153,795 people tested per million population.

Yesterday, 1,861 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan.

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