The Saskatchewan Provincial Government is reporting six new cases of COVID-19 on Friday.

One out-of-province case was removed from the count, bringing the total to 1,595 reported cases.

The new cases are located in the North West (2), North East (1), Saskatoon (1) and South West (2) zones.

There are six new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on August 21. One (1) out-of-province non-Saskatchewan case previously counted has been removed, bringing the total to 1,595 reported cases.

Twenty more people have recovered and 134 cases are considered active.

As of August 21, 2020, the total number of cases identified to date in communal living settings is 601. The data provided by the Ministry of Health in previous news releases was not intended to be a cumulative number. Earlier positive cases in communal living settings were included in regular positive case counts. Cases on colony were not reported separately until June 18, when an outbreak was declared in the RM of Maple Creek.

To date, 127,896 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan.  As of Aug. 19, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 92,138 people tested per million population.  The national rate was 132,331 people tested per million population.

On Thursday, 1,272 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan.