A total of 26 more positive cases of COVID-19 were reported in the province’s daily report Friday, pushing our provincial total past 400.

This is the highest single day total of new cases since the beginning of the pandemic, and it gives Saskatchewan a total of 415 positive cases since mid-March when the first one came in.

The province revealed that one of the cases was a patient in Prince Albert’s Victoria Hospital who had been an inpatient for a period of time. An outbreak has now been declared there, despite there being only the one case so far.

Nineteen of the new cases are from the far north region – La Loche and surrounding area – four more are from the north, including three in Lloydminster, and three more are from Saskatoon

With two recoveries, there are 112 cases considered active.

Six deaths with COVID-19 complications have been recorded, with the most recent coming earlier this week.

There are ten people in hospital, with three of those people in intensive care in Saskatoon and the rest receiving inpatient care.

Of the 415  provincial cases, 138 are travel-related, 163 are community contacts or mass gatherings, 38 have no known exposures and 76 are under investigation by public health.

Forty of the cases are health care workers, and the province says the infections may not be because of their health care in all instances.

A total of 156 of the cases are from the Saskatoon area, 75 are from the Regina area, 81 are from the north, 77 are from the far north, 15 are from the south and 11 are from the central region.

Thirty-nine cases are of people 19 and younger, and 86 are in the 60-and-older range. It’s statistically an even 50-50 split between male and female cases.

Thusfar, 30,357  tests have been performed in Saskatchewan.

Nationally, there have been nearly 55,000 confirmed cases and nearly 3,400 deaths from COVID-19. There have also been over 22,500 recoveries.