Saskatchewan Health reported 299 new cases of COVID-19 this afternoon.  72 of the new cases are from the Saskatoon Correctional Centre with 68 being offenders and four are staff bringing total cases there to 85.

Work is underway to reduce the spread in the facility and the correctional system.

Saskatchewan also reported three deaths with one in Saskatoon and two in the North West zone bringing total deaths to 40.                                

Of the new cases 125 are in Saskatoon, 44 in Regina, 34 in North Central and smaller numbers in other zones including 16 in the Far North east and of the total 7362 reported 3146 are considered active, 4176 people have recovered and 188 people are in hospital with 18 in intensive care.

The seven day average of daily new cases is 243 or 20.1 new cases per 100 thousand population.