There are seven new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan, as of Sept. 17.
The new cases are located in the Saskatoon (4), South East (2), and South West (1) zones.
One case with pending residence information reported on Sept. 16 was removed because the person is not a Saskatchewan resident.
None of the new cases in the Saskatoon area are linked to the social gathering reported on Sept 13. To date, however, there have been 21 cases linked to the gathering.
There are now 1,757 reported cases, including 109 active cases.
Investigations completed thus far have found that 29 of the 109 current active cases are from communal living settings.
Five people are in hospital receiving inpatient care in Saskatoon.
Four more people have recovered, increasing the provincial total to 1,624 recoveries.
Of the 1,757 cases in the province to date:
- 263 cases are travellers;
- 875 are community contacts (including mass gatherings);
- 520 have no known exposures; and
- 99 are under investigation by local public health
On a regional level:
- 434 cases are from the south area (222 south west, 197 south central, 15 south east);
- 357 cases are from the far north area (349 far north west, 0 far north central, 8 far north east);
- 326 cases are from the Saskatoon area;
- 271 cases are from the north area (131 north west, 73 north central, 67 north east);
- 229 cases are from the central area (168 central west, 61 central east); and
- 140 cases are from the Regina area.
Twenty-four deaths have been reported to date.
A total of 164,666 COVID-19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. Yesterday, 1,515 COVID-19 tests were performed.
For more information, visit www.saskatchewan.ca/COVID19. You can find the maps and the breakdown of cases by region on the government's website.
