Two additional deaths of Saskatchewan patients who tested positive from COVID-19 have been recorded by the province.

Both are from the far north, with one patient in their 60s and another in their 80s. This brings the total amount of deaths in the province to 10.

There were three new cases reported in the provincial ministry’s daily release Wednesday, with the two new cases reported in Regina.  The other new case is in the far north.  

With a total of 559 recoveries, a total of 68 cases are considered active.

Also, there are four people currently in hospital. Of those, three are in ICU in Saskatoon.

Of the 68 currently active cases, 55 are in the far north, four are in the north, six are in Saskatoon, two are in the Regina region and one is in the south region, which includes the Moose Jaw area. There are no currently active cases in the central region.

Of the 634 provincial cases overall, 141 are travel-related, 363 are community contacts or mass gatherings, 77 have no known exposures and 56 are under investigation by public health.

Fifty 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 167 of the cases are from the Saskatoon area, 78 are from the Regina area, 111 are from the north, 253 are from the far north, 16 are from the south and 12 are from the central region.

Ninety-three cases are of people 19 and younger, and 122 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, 45,118 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. There has been a rate of 34,492 tests per one million people, compared to the national average of 39,920 per million.

Saskatchewan still has the fifth most active cases in Canada.

Nationally as of Monday afternoon, there have been over 87,400 confirmed cases and over 6,700 deaths from COVID-19. There have also been over 46,000 recoveries. The United States had over 99,700 deaths Monday afternoon and is now over 1.69 million cases.