Health Canada is just “days away” from deciding whether to approve Johnson and Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine. If that happens it will add a fourth option to Canada’s efforts to immunize our way to an end to the pandemic and the first to require only one dose. Coupled with a new recommendation Thursday that provinces delay […]
COVID-19 numbers continue to be below 200, but the trend of a majority of the new cases coming from the Regina zone continues. On Wednesday, the province announced 121 new cases. 35 of them, or just under 30 percent, are in the Regina zone. The new cases combined with 180 recoveries puts the active case […]
Opposition Labour Critic Carla Beck, is calling on the Premier and the government to immediately deploy rapid COVID-19 testing kits to employees of Prairie Pride Natural Foods. The NDP says confirmed cases at the plant have doubled since the outbreak was declared on February 19 but wide-scale testing of plant employees has still not been […]
The province is telling us that all long-term care homes in Saskatchewan have now received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. 91 percent of residents in those homes have chosen to be inoculated. Of the nine percent who have not been jabbed, the province says they were not immunized due to a variety of […]
The province says testing for COVID-19 variants of concern can now happen at the Roy Romanow Provincial Lab in Regina. The lab can test up to 192 samples a week with 120 continuing to go to Winnipeg to the National Microbiology Lab to ensure a larger sample size. In a statement from the government, it […]
The province is reporting 154 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday and 146 recoveries . The Regina region has almost a third of the new cases with 53. In all, Regina now has 497 of the 1,551 active cases in Saskatchewan. Besides the 53 new cases in the Regina region, the other new cases are […]
The province’s chief medical health officer says we are in a “race against time” when it comes to COVID-19 variants that are starting to show up in Saskatchewan However, Dr. Saqib Shahab says it has been proven elsewhere that vaccinations are working when it comes to COVID and the variants that have sprung up. “We […]
Some good news for youth sports. The government is amending its sports and activities guidelines as they are now allowing multiple groups of athletes 18-years-old or younger to practice on one surface at a time. This applies to ice surfaces, large pool facilities and floor spaces. All people must be wearing masks and there must […]
The amount of people in Saskatchewan that have died as a result of COVID-19 is approaching the 400 mark. On Saturday, the province told us about five more deaths and 162 new cases with almost a third of those new cases coming from the Regina region. Three of the five deaths come from the Regina […]
There are 211 new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan on Thursday. Of those 211, 80 are in the Regina zone. There are 142 recoveries bringing active cases to 1,493 and one more death is being reported as a person aged 80 plus who was in the northwest zone and tested positive for the virus has […]
