SASKATOON -- The Saskatoon area continues to lead the province in active cases as the Regina area's decline in active cases continues. The Saskatoon area had 507 active cases. The Regina area had 482. While Thursday's COVID-19 update showed Regina's active cases had slid to 421, Saskatoon's had climbed to 564. As of Thursday's update, the Saskatoon area had who are 57 people receiving inpatient care due to COVID-19 and 14 intensive care patients. According to the update, the Saskatoon area has a cumulative total of 1,152 variant COVID-19 cases. The province does not share how many of the variant cases are considered active. However, there have been 246 new variant cases confirmed since the province's May 6 update when the total sat at 906.