In the November 26 COVID-19 update from The Saskatchewan Health Authority, they are reporting 299 new cases of the virus in the province.

Of those 299 new cases reported, there are 11 in the Far North West zone, 4 in the Far North Central zone,16 in the Far North East zone, 17 in the North West zone, 34 in the North Central zone, 3 in the North East zone, 125 in the Saskatoon zone, 4 in the Central West zone, 6 in the Central East zone, and 44 in the Regina zone.

Here in the south, there are 7 new cases in the South West zone, 12 in the South Central zone, and 8 in the South East zone.

There are 8 cases with pending residence information.

Of the cases reported today, 72 are from the Saskatoon Correction Centre - 68 of these are offenders and 4 are staff. To date, there are a total of 85 active cases among offenders and staff at The Saskatoon Correctional Centre.

Corrections officials are working with public health on measures to reduce the spread within the facility and the correctional system. This will include ongoing testing of offenders and staff at the Saskatoon Correction Centre.

Additionally, all new admissions to provincial correctional centres will be tested for COVID-19 starting early next week. New admissions will continue to be quarantined for 14 days.

Corrections is also instituting mandatory continuous masking for offenders across all provincial correction facilities. Employees at correctional centres have been continuously masking since the summer.

As of today, there are no new admission to the Saskatoon Correction Centre. Remanded and sentenced offenders are being redirected to Regina and Prince Albert Correctional Centres.

Ten cases with pending residence information have been assigned as follows - 3 to the Regina zone, 3 to the North West zone, and 4 to the North Central zone. Eighteen Saskatchewan residents tested out of province were added to the total counts in the following zones - 10 to the North West zone, 2 to the Far North West zone, 1 to the North Central zone, 1 to the Regina zone, and 4 to the Saskatoon zone.

One case with pending residence information and one case assigned to Saskatoon were deemed to be out of province residents and have been removed from the total counts.

The seven-day average of daily new cases is 243 (20.1 new cases per 100,000 population)

The total provincial number of cases now sits at 7,362, of which 3,146 are considered active.

In the South West zone there are 86 active cases.

There have been 178 recoveries reported today, bringing that provincial total to 4,176.

Three residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. One in Saskatoon in the 70-79 age group, and two in the 80+ age group in the North West zone. That brings the total number of deaths in the province related to COVID-19 to 40.

There are 108 people in hospital. Ninety people are receiving in patient care - 1 in the Far North West zone, 8 in the North West zone, 8 in the North Central zone,1 in the North East zone, 34 in the Saskatoon zone, 2 in the Central East zone, and 16 in the Regina zone.

In our area there is 1 in the South West zone and 19 in the South East zone.

There are currently 18 people in intensive care - 1 in the North West zone, 1 in the North Central zone, 10 in Saskatoon and 4 in Regina.

There are 2 people in the South West zone in intensive care.

To date, there has been 330,364 COVID-19 tests done in Saskatchewan.

And yesterday, there were 3,493 COVID-19 tests processed.

Today the SHA also released their Saskatchewan totals for Children and Youth ages 0-19 years.

For the week of November 9 -15 there were 445 active cases in Children and Youth in  Saskatchewan.

Of those 445 cases there were 4 with no location or residence information available,27 in the Far North West zone, 16 in the Far North Central zone, 31 in the Far North East zone,50 in the North West zone, 58 in the North Central zone, 22 in the North East zone, 1 in the Central West zone,21 in the Central East zone, 111 in the Saskatoon zone, and  70 in the Regina zone.

In the South West zone there are 7 cases, 13 in the South Central zone, and 14 in the South East zone.