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Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says a plan to reopen the province’s economy could be released next week, but only if the number of new COVID-19 cases remains low.

Moe said in his daily news conference on Monday that the release of a plan called Reopen Saskatchewan would depend on continued low case counts and ramped up testing.

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Moe made his remarks Monday after only two new COVID-19 cases were announced, the lowest number of new cases since a single case was announced on March 16.

Nearly 60 per cent of the province’s 300 COVID-19 cases have recovered, Moe noted, and the number of active cases, 118, is the lowest since March 27.

“Now, none of this is a reason for complacency,” he said. “But it is a reason for cautious optimism. And it means that we can start to think about what the process of reopening Saskatchewan will look like.

“Let me be clear, there is no magic switch that we can flip that sends everything back to normal overnight.”