Saskatchewan recorded five new COVID-19 related deaths on Wednesday, along with 223 new cases and 316 recoveries.

This brings the active case count to 2,440. There are 61 cases considered active in the South Central zone.

The new cases are located in the Far North West (15), Far North East (9), North West (18), North Central (18), North East (3), Saskatoon (54), Central West (1), Central East (23), Regina (35), South West (3), South Central (5), and South East (24) zones and fifteen (15) new cases have pending residence information.

Fifteen (15) cases with pending residence information were assigned to Far North West (from October 1 (1), October 5 (1), October 25 (2)), Far North East (from October 25 (1)), North West (from October 1 (2), October 12 (1)), Central East (from October 21 (2)), Regina (from October 21 (3), October 23 (1)), and South East (from October 25 (1)) zones.

There are 271 people in hospital, with 214 receiving inpatient care and 57 in ICU. Four more patients have been transferred to Ontario, bringing that total to 16.