Two residents who tested positive for COVID-19 in the South Central and Southeast zones, have died. Both individuals were in the 80+ age category. There are 325 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Nov. 30, bringing the provincial total to date to 8,564 cases.
The new cases are located in the Far Northwest (9), Far Northeast (14), Northwest (23), North Central (27), Northeast (9), Saskatoon (125), Central West (1), Central East (10), Regina (62), Southwest (22), South Central (8) and Southeast (13) zones and two new cases have pending residence information.
Four cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far Northeast (1), Northwest (1), North Central (1) and Regina (1) zones.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 263 (21. 7 new cases per 100,000 population).Of the 8,564 reported cases, 3,879 are considered active, with 177 active cases in the southeast. A total of 4,638 people have recovered, including 49 new recoveries as of Nov. 30.
A total of 123 people are in hospital, and 100 people are receiving inpatient care; one in the Far Northwest, eight in the Northwest, eight in the North Central, three in the Northeast, 33 in Saskatoon, one in the Central East, 26 in Regina, one in the Southwest, one in South Central and 18 in the Southeast zone. Twenty-three people are in intensive care: three in the North Central, 14 in the Saskatoon, and six in the Regina.
Of the 8,564 cases in the province, 471 cases are travelers; 3,616 are community contacts (including mass gatherings); 1,825 have no known exposures; 2,652 are under investigation by local public health, and 256 cases are healthcare workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to healthcare in all instances.
By age category, 1,774 cases involve people 19 years of age and under; 3,050 cases are in the 20-39 age range; 2,291 are in the 40-59 age range; 1,127 are in the 60-79 age range; and 317 are in the 80-plus range. Confirmation of age is pending for five cases.
About 50 per cent of the cases are females and 50 per cent are males. There have been 47 deaths related to COVID-19 reported to date.
Of 8,564 confirmed cases, 2,603 cases are from the Saskatoon area; 1,742 cases are from the north area (623 northwest, 813 north central, 306 northeast); 1,529 cases are from the Regina area; 1,122 cases are from the south area (429 southwest, 407 south central, 286 southeast); 913 cases are from the far north area (600 far northwest, 80 far north central, 233 far northeast); 627 cases are from the central area (272 central west, 355 central east), and 28 cases have pending residence information.
To date, 345,487 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of Nov. 28, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 219,988 people tested per million population. The national rate was 303,613 people tested per million population.
A total of 4,251 COVID-19 tests were processed in Saskatchewan on Nov. 29.
Keep your number of contacts low
Based on the confirmed cases at present, public health estimates that there are more than 6,600 reported contacts requiring follow-up in the province right now.
A “close contact” is anyone that you have spent 15 minutes or more with, within the two metres of physical distancing. You should be able to count your close contacts on one hand.
At this time, your close contacts should be the members of your immediate household who you dine with, hug, see without requiring a mask.
Although not close contacts, consider all your weekly contacts whether in the classroom or at your workplace. While you must abide by the public health guidelines in these spaces to reduce the risk of transmission, could you list your contacts for the past 14 days?
Public Health Measures
For more information on the current public health measures or to see the Public Health Order, visit https://www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19.
