Tag Archives: Health

Some of the Saskatchewan government’s two million rapid testing kits are beginning to appear at locations throughout the province. Chambers of commerce throughout Saskatchewan were expected to r...

A Saskatchewan tavern owner is frustrated that public health restrictions mandating proof of vaccination for businesses aren't more fair. Christine White, who owns the Crossroads Inn in Stoughton, sai...

Action needs to be taken to reduce COVID-19 transmission in schools. That’s according to the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF), which released an open letter to the Government of Sas...

An Ontario-based critical care doctor was surprised Wednesday when he learned his hospital would no longer be receiving ICU patients from Saskatchewan. Dr. Michael Warner was anticipating getting an I...

Some COVID-19 ICU patients are getting moved to Ontario to ease the impact on the health-care system, but an infectious disease doctor at Regina's General Hospital says it isn't making things any easi...

The latest COVID update was a bit of a mixed bag. In its daily update Saturday, the province reported that the active case total had dropped to 4,297. There were 411 new cases and 476 recoveries, alon...

Saskatchewan residents are being reminded to roll up their sleeves and get their flu vaccines. Dr. Tania Diener, a medical health officer for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, urged people to get the...

Health Minister Paul Merriman believes the province's vaccination rates are being underestimated because of Saskatchewan expatriates who have been inoculated against COVID-19 elsewhere. “We have...

The Saskatchewan NDP is calling for pediatric treatments and therapies to be reinstated with federal help in the province. In a release on Wednesday, the NDP said treatments and therapy options for ch...

After nearly 19 months, fully vaccinated Canadians will get to drive or ferry to the United States for non-essential reasons. This announcement came on Tuesday night after American president Joe Biden...