There is one new case of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan to report on June 28, 2020, bringing the Saskatchewan total to 778 cases. The new case is located in the Far North region.
Of the 778 reported COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan, 104 are considered active. A total of 661 people have recovered.
Six individuals are receiving inpatient care in the hospital: three in the North, two in Saskatoon and one in the South. There are no COVID-19 patients currently in ICU.
Of the 778 cases in the province:
• 165 cases are travellers;
• 472 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
• 103 have no known exposures; and
• 38 are under investigation by local public health.
Overall in Saskatchewan:
• 55 cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to health care in all instances.
• 323 of the cases are from the Far North, 186 are from the Saskatoon area, 114 from the North, 80 from the Regina area, 63 from the South and 12 from the Central region.
• 113 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.
• 267 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 247 are in the 40-59 age range; 130 are in the 60-79 age range; and 21 are in the 80-plus range.
• 51 per cent of the cases are females and 49 per cent are males.
• 13 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported to date.
To date, 64,800 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of June 26, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 48,342 people tested per million population. The national rate was 70,241 people tested per million population.
