Regina case is lone new COVID-19 diagnosis reported Tuesday in Sask.

A single case of COVID-19 in Regina was the lone new diagnosis announced in the province on Tuesday, with 336 more tests for the novel coronavirus having been conducted on Monday.

The number of known active cases in the province decreased to 70 as three more people recovered, bring the total number of recoveries to 291 out of 366 reported cases since the virus was first detected in Saskatchewan. 

Eight people are in hospital, with two currently in the intensive care units in Saskatoon. Three other people are hospitalized in Saskatoon, while the remaining three are in the north region. 

The far north continues to have the most active cases in the province, with 42. The government announced on Monday that 29 of those cases were in La Loche. 

The Saskatchewan Health Authority says 28,632 tests have been conducted since testing first started, though some patients have been tested multiple times. 

Most of the cases (150) are connected to close contacts or mass gatherings. Another 138 are travel related while 35 have no known exposure, a sign of likely community transmission. Forty-three cases remain under investigation.

Twelve cases were announced on Monday, with 11 in the far north and one in the north.

The total number of deaths remained at five as of Tuesday. The latest victim was a man in his 80s who was a long-term care resident in La Loche. He died in a North Battleford hospital on Sunday. 

Thirty-eight known cases in the province are health-care workers, though the province says the diagnoses may not necessarily be related to their health-care work.