Health

Three deaths, 181 new cases of COVID-19 and 223 recoveries

The province has announced three people who tested positive for COVID-19 have died.All three deaths were in the 80+ age group. One in the North West zone and two in the Regina zone.There are 181 new c...

Dec 22, 2020

Province records 206 new COVID-19 cases, four more deaths

The province has recorded four new deaths from COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, along with 206 new cases, 110 of those are across all five northern regions. All four deaths were reported in the Regina zone. ...

Dec 21, 2020

Province reports three more COVID-19 deaths, 226 new cases

Saskatchewan is reporting three more people who tested positive for COVID-19 have died.All three deaths reported Sunday were in the Regina zone. Two were in the 80 plus age group and one was in the 70...

Dec 20, 2020

2nd COVID-19 vaccine authorized in US preparing to ship out

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. - Workers on Sunday began packaging shipments of the second COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., a desperately needed boost to efforts to bring the coronavirus pandemic under c...

Dec 20, 2020

CP NewsAlert: Canada passes 500,000 COVID-19 cases following Saskatchewan report

Canada has surpassed 500,000 cases of COVID-19 as infections continue to surge in several provinces.Saskatchewan pushed the country over the grim threshold today, with 252 new cases reported.Earlier i...

Dec 19, 2020

Saskatchewan reports 252 new cases of COVID-19 and eight more deaths

Eight more people who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. The Government of Saskatchewan reported the new deaths, along with 252 new cases of the virus Saturday.Two of the deaths reported Saturday...

Dec 19, 2020

Regina woman offers first-hand look at getting COVID vaccine

What is it like to get a COVID-19 vaccine?One Regina woman thinks it's fairly similar to getting any other kind of vaccine.Jill Straker works at the drive-through COVID testing site on the grounds of ...

Dec 19, 2020

COVID contact tracers encountering ‘fear, anxiety, confusion’

Contact tracers across the province have had their detective hats on to try and determine how COVID-19 is spreading.Contact tracers are tasked with finding out where community transfer of the virus is...

Dec 19, 2020

Hope spreads throughout the province ahead of the holiday season

Although Christmas holidays will be different this year, we still have hope.Hope was the message a Melfort nurse decided to spread in the community with lights on a balcony at the hospital and that ha...

Dec 18, 2020

Province records 245 new COVID-19 cases

The province has reported two more deaths of people diagnosed with COVID-19. One new death in the age group 70 to 79 was reported in the Regina zone. One new death in the age group 80+ was reported in...

Dec 18, 2020