Eight new coronavirus cases were reported in Saskatchewan on Friday. The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) also declared an outbreak at Meadow Lake Hospital over.
All the new cases are in the far north — five in La Loche and three in Beauval — raised the overall total in Saskatchewan to 590.
The region continues to have the majority of the active cases in the province at 147, just over 83 per cent of the provincial total of 176.
Other regions with active cases are the north (18), Saskatoon (9), Regina (1) and central (1). Nine people are in hospital — six in Saskatoon, two in Regina and one in the north.