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Regina, Saskatoon airports brace for COVID-19 changes
International flights and new vaccination rules start Tuesday for the Regina and Saskatoon airports. After losing their official "international" designation from Transport Canada in March, people will...
Nov 30, 2021
‘Sicker and sicker every day’: Sask. woman pushes gov’t for help as she waits on surgery
Nearly as long as Saskatchewan has been dealing with the pandemic, Stephanie Brad has been waiting for surgery to get her bladder removed. "I'm getting sicker and sicker every day," said Brad. She and...
Nov 30, 2021
Finn family to finally get health-care money from province
After more than a year of fighting with Saskatchewan's Ministry of Health, the Finn family will now be reimbursed for the hundreds of thousands of dollars they spent on lifesaving health care for thei...
Nov 24, 2021
Doctor speaks on emergence of new COVID variant subtypes in Sask.
As the COVID-19 virus passes on to more people, the chance of it mutating into a different variant grows. This makes Health Canada’s approval of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged five to 1...
Nov 19, 2021
COVID-19 weighing heavy on Saskatchewan mayors
When Glenn George first took on the role of mayor in Melfort about a year ago, he didn't realize how much the pandemic would impact the job. "I'm working at it twice as hard as I ever thought I'd have...
Nov 19, 2021 (City of Melfort/Facebook)
Patient worried about changing treatments after monoclonal antibodies reserved for COVID
The Saskatchewan government has made monoclonal antibodies available to COVID-19 patients during the fourth wave, but immunocompromised patients who regularly rely on those treatments feel like they'r...
Nov 08, 2021 Tammy Peters has been immunocompromised since she was 14. She doesn't want anyone to have to go without treatment during the fourth wave in Saskatchewan, but says her treatment changing presents some serious complications. (Tammy Peters/Submitted)
Health minister believes municipalities should stick to their jurisdictions
It appears the Saskatchewan government wouldn't allow any municipality to take health orders into its own hands. On Friday, Saskatoon's city council voted down a proposed bylaw that would have impleme...
Nov 02, 2021
Proof-of-vaccination policy introduced for SHA facilities
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has announced that proof of full vaccination will be required to enter its facilities starting Nov. 8. In a news release issued on Friday, the SHA said that will incl...
Oct 29, 2021
Senior medical health officer discusses letter sent to Sask. government
The doctor behind sending a letter to the Saskatchewan government asking for more COVID-19 measures is providing his reasoning. Senior medical health officer Dr. Cory Neudorf sent the letter showcasin...
Oct 27, 2021
Sask. doctors pen letter to government, ask for more to be done on the COVID front
Some medical health officers (MHO) in Saskatchewan are teaming up to ask the provincial government to do more to address challenges caused by COVID-19. MHOs are designated by the Ministry of Health to...
Oct 26, 2021
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