Only one more positive case has been added to the list of COVID-19 patients, and three more people have recovered to slightly decrease the number of people in Saskatchewan with novel coronavirus, according to Tuesday’s release from the provincial ministry of health.  

There have been 366 positive confirmed cases of COVID-19 overall, with 70 cases considered active.

There are now eight people in hospital, with two of those people in intensive care.

Of the cases, 138 are travel-related, 150 are community contacts or mass gatherings, 35 have no known exposures and 43 are under investigation by public health.

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

A total of 150 of the cases are from the Saskatoon area, 75 are from the Regina area, 69 are from the north, 46 are from the far north, 15 are from the south and 11 are from the central region.

Thirty cases are of people 19 and younger, and 79 are in the 60-and-older range. Fifty-one  per cent of the cases are male and 49 per cent are female.

Thusfar, 28,632 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan.

The province is still asking people to not meet in groups of more than 10 people. “If you are going to create an extended household group, consider if any member of the group has chronic health conditions that would put them at greater risk, or if they are in close contact with someone who could be vulnerable,”Tuesday’s media release said.

“You should always be aware of who you have been in contact with over the past two weeks.  These are the people who would need to be contacted by public health if you were to test positive for COVID-19.”

Nationally, there have been nearly 50,000 confirmed cases and over 2,800 deaths from COVID-19. There have also been over 19,000 recoveries. As of Monday’s report, Alberta had nearly 4,700 cases compared to Saskatchewan’s 365.

Tuesday afternoon, the United States passed one million positive cases and 57,000 deaths.