One more case of COVID-19 was found in Saskatchewan, according to the province’s daily release, and there are now three people with positive COVID tests in Saskatchewan hospitals.  

The new case is in the Saskatoon region.  

This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases up to 684 in the province, with 40 of them currently active.

There have been a total of 631 recoveries and 13 deaths so far in the pandemic.

There are three people in hospital with COVID-19, and one of those people is in ICU in Saskatoon.

Of the 40 currently active cases, 22 are in the far north, one is in the north, 13 are in Saskatoon, and two are in the south region. There are still no active cases in the central region or the Regina region.

Of the 684 provincial cases overall, 146 are travel-related, 409 are community contacts or mass gatherings, 81 have no known exposures and 48 are under investigation by public health.

Fifty-two of the cases are health care workers, and the province says the infections may not be because of their health care employment.

A total of 182 of the cases are from the Saskatoon area, 80 are from the Regina area, 112 are from the north, 277 are from the far north, 19 are from the south and 12 are from the central region.

One hundred and four of the cases are of people 19 and younger, and 132 are in the 60-and-older range. Of all of the cases, 51 per cent are in female patients and 49 per cent are male.

Thusfar, 56,715  tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. According to the latest numbers, There has been a rate of 42,855 tests per one million people, compared to the national average of 58,088 tests per million.

Nationally as of Tuesday afternoon, there have been over 99,400 confirmed cases and over 8,200 deaths from COVID-19. There have also been over 61,400 recoveries. The United States has had nearly 2.2 million cases with over 118,000 deaths.