In the July 24 daily COVID-19 update from The Saskatchewan Health Authority there have been 27 new cases of the virus reported in the province.

Of those new cases, 24 are in the South, 1 is in the Central Region, 1 is in the North and 1 is in the Regina Region.

This brings the provincial total of cases to 1, 099, of which 235 are considered active.

There are 132 active cases in the South Region.

Of the 27 cases reported today, 21 are from colonies in the southwest and west central regions. There are currently 21 Hutterite communities with active cases in both the southwest and west central regions.

As of today, there are 189 total case (active and recovered) in t he southwest region-172 of these are on 11 colonies and 17 are in the general community. In the west central region there are 93 total cases (active and recovered) - 76 are on 10 colonies and 17 are in the general community.

There are 10 more recoveries today, bringing that provincial to total to 848.

There have been 16 COVID-19 related deaths.

Fourteen people are in hospital. Ten are receiving inpatient care-five in Saskatoon, two in the South, one in the North, one in Regina, and one in the Central Region. Four people are in intensive care-three in Saskatoon and one in the South.

To date, 87,988 COVID-19 tests have been done in Saskatchewan.