Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
Another Saskatchewan resident has died after contracting COVID-19.
For the second day in a row, the lone fatality reported by the province is a person over the age of 80 who lived in the south zone. There have now been 55 COVID-related deaths in Saskatchewan since March.
The number of new cases reported Friday jumped again, with 283 new cases reported by the provincial government. New cases were reported in every region, including the Regina (83), Saskatoon (50), north-central (47), southwest (12), northwest (12), far northeast (11), far northwest (nine), central-east (nine), south-central (nine), southeast (nine), northeast (seven), and central-west (seven) areas.
Locations for a further 18 new cases have not yet been determined.
The total number of positive cases in Saskatchewan is up to 9,527, with 4,116 classed as active. Recoveries have increased by 183 since Thursday, for a total of 5,356.
There are still 126 people in hospital, with 101 people receiving inpatient care and 25 in intensive care units (11 in Saskatoon, nine in Regina, four in the north-central area, and one in the northwest zone).
There have been 297 health-care workers who have tested positive so far.
Travellers to Saskatchewan account for 491 cases, and 4,037 cases are the result of community contacts, including mass gatherings. Public health workers are still investigating the origins of 2,729 cases, while 2,270 have no known exposures.
The majority of cases are in the 20-to-39 age range (3,359), followed by 40-to-59 (2,547), 19-and-under (1,982), 60-to-79 (1,273), and 80 and over (361). There remain five cases for which age has not been confirmed.
The Saskatoon zone still has the highest number of positive cases (2,852), followed by the north (1,927), Regina (1,829), south (1,218), far north (996), and central zones (659). The location of 46 cases has not yet been confirmed.
Thursday’s testing brought the province closer to its goal of 4,000 tests per day, with 3,504 tests processed throughout Saskatchewan. In all, 357,142 tests have been processed in the province since the start of the pandemic.
