Health

Feds to require negative COVID-19 test at land borders

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says starting next week, anyone arriving in Canada by land will also need to show a recent negative COVID-19 test.Trudeau says the new measure will kick in Feb. ...

Feb 09, 2021

Province to release second phase of vaccination plan Tuesday

In December, the province released a broad-strokes plan on the COVID-19 vaccination rollout, but on Tuesday, the minister of health is expected to release more details on the second phase of vaccinati...

Feb 08, 2021

Province continues vaccinations in North, 171 new cases to report

The province administered 509 COVID-19 vaccine doses in the northern half of the province yesterday, bringing the total amount to 42,987.The number of vaccines yesterday was lower than targeted due to...

Feb 08, 2021

How to build routines amid uncertainty and disruption of pandemic

We may be nearly a year into the "new normal" of pandemic life, but an increasing number of people are finding it difficult to cope.A December survey from the Canadian Mental Health Association report...

Feb 08, 2021

Canada’s sluggish COVID-19 vaccination program won’t get better this week

OTTAWA - Canada's languid vaccination efforts have no chance of improvement this week with just 70,200 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine scheduled to start arriving.Provinces and territories have a...

Feb 08, 2021

Province administers 2,099 vaccines, 269 new cases of COVID-19

The Saskatchewan Health Authority has announced there were 2,099 doses of the vaccine administered in the province yesterday, bringing the total to 38,710 vaccines given in Saskatchewan. There 269 new...

Feb 05, 2021

Suicide rate down in Sask., attributed to ‘pulling together phenomenon’

While there has been a lot of bad news coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems fewer people have decided to take their lives into their own hands.Deaths by suicide were down about 35 per cent in...

Feb 05, 2021

Another case of UK COVID variant found in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan has its third case of a COVID-19 variant.In a media release Thursday, the Ministry of Health reported another case of the U.K. variant had been detected, this time in a resident of the Sa...

Feb 04, 2021

Moe set to needle federal government over vaccines

Scott Moe is pushing for a larger and more timely injection of COVID-19 vaccines into Saskatchewan.Saskatchewan's premier issued a statement Thursday saying he planned to press for more "clarity and c...

Feb 04, 2021

More vaccines coming to Saskatchewan's North, COVID-19 variant detected in third patient

The province administered 723 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine yesterday, bringing the total amount to 36,527. The doses were administered in the following zones: Far North Central (17), Far North East (...

Feb 04, 2021