For a second straight day, the amount of new COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan is lower than 200. Wednesday’s update shows 169 new cases which combined with 154 recoveries moves the active case count up to 4,213 with over half of those in Regina and Saskatoon. The seven-day daily average now sits at 243 which is […]
Dr. Jeffrey Betcher, a critical care physician in Regina, has become the first person in Saskatchewan to be immunized for COVID-19. Just hours after the first shipment of doses from Pfizer Canada arrived in the province, Bettcher and emergency room nurse Leah Sawatzky rolled up their sleeves and got inoculated. 1,950 healthcare workers in ICU’s, […]
COVID-19 vaccines will start being delivered Tuesday night. The province says the first doses have arrived in Saskatchewan meaning 1,950 healthcare workers in ICU’s, Emergency Room departments and COVID units at both the General and Pasqua along with staff at testing and assessment centres can be vaccinated over the next number of days with pilot […]
The province is reporting seven more COVID-19 related deaths. This brings the total to 98. Five of the seven were aged 80 plus with four from Saskatoon and one from Regina. The other two to die were a person in their 20’s from the Northwest region and a person in their 50’s in the west-central […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada has signed a contract to receive up to 168,000 doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine before the end of December. The Moderna vaccine has not yet been approved by Health Canada but Trudeau says deliveries could begin within 48 hours of that happening. The chief medical adviser at Health Canada, […]
Saskatchewan families can plan for a Christmas by themselves as the government announced some more public health measures to deal with the ongoing spread of COVID-19 on Monday. The biggest one sees the province limiting private indoor gatherings to immediate households only as of Thursday though single people can continue to meet with one other […]
The latest COVID-19 numbers from the province shows that the active case count is dropping, but that we are seeing the biggest one-day total when it comes to deaths. There were 11 deaths reported Saturday to go along with 274 new cases, 713 recoveries and 118 in hospital, The 118 is a drop of 15 […]
Saskatchewan’s Health Minister says a measure of his government’s success in responding to COVID-19 is polling data. Paul Merriman was asked on Thursday how the Saskatchewan Party government measures its success in dealing with the novel coronavirus. He said a recent poll released by the Angus Reid Institute shows favourable results for the province. “We […]
There are still many active cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, but the active case count has dropped on Friday. The latest numbers from the government show 246 new cases with 387 recoveries putting the active case number at 4,547. The new cases are located in the Far North West (19), Far North Central (1), Far […]
24 people have died from COVID-19 in Saskatchewan this month and 46 have died in the last 30 days. That figure went up to 75 after the government announced four new deaths in its daily COVID-19 update on Thursday. Two of the four were in the 80-plus demographic with one in Regina and the other […]
