Health

Alberta to stop giving first doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot as supply dwindles

OTTAWA - Alberta says it won't give out more first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for the time being.A spokesman for the provincial health department says the decision was made because there ...

May 11, 2021

Health minister points to appointments as more are eligible for COVID vaccines

As thousands more people in Saskatchewan become eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine every three days, their best bet for a shot in the arm could be making an appointment.As of Monday afternoon, there were...

May 10, 2021

Pharmacies deal with appointment shuffling as COVID vaccines roll out

Saskatchewan's COVID-19 vaccine rollout is going full steam ahead, and pharmacies are a major part of that.But what happens when appointments at pharmacies are cancelled?Dawn Martin, the CEO of the Ph...

May 10, 2021

Opposition, Ottawa, media looking for COVID disaster: Alberta justice minister

EDMONTON - Alberta's justice minister says a COVID-19 disaster is what the provincial Opposition, the federal government and the media "were looking for and want" in the province.Kaycee Madu, in Faceb...

May 10, 2021

147 new cases reported in Saskatchewan and vaccine age eligibility moves to 29 and older

As of May 10, the Saskatchewan government has reported another 147 new cases of COVID-19 in the province. This brings the provincial total to 43,288 cases; 40,645 recoveries and 2,141 cases are consid...

May 10, 2021

Premier signals date for Step One of Saskatchewan’s COVID reopening plan

An uptick in COVID-19 vaccinations allowed Saskatchewan to put a start date of May 30 on Step One of the Re-Opening Roadmap.It came Sunday afternoon as the province reported 71 per cent of people aged...

May 10, 2021

Canada to get two million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses as provinces expand rollouts

OTTAWA - Canada is scheduled to receive two million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine this week as provinces continue to ramp up their immunization efforts. The two million shots represent...

May 10, 2021

Dozens gather at Whistle Stop Cafe to rally against health orders

MIRROR, Alta. - RCMP ticketed protesters leaving an anti-lockdown rally outside a central Alberta caf Saturday, after the establishment was closed by health officials earlier in the week.Despite pouri...

May 08, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine development in Sask. aimed at current coronavirus plus future ones

Not only have they adapted their original COVID-19 vaccine to fight at least three variants of concern, but researchers at Saskatoon's VIDO-InterVac are also working to develop a "universal" vaccine t...

May 07, 2021

Province reports 295 new cases and one death from COVID-19

Another 295 new cases of COVID-19 were reported today by the Saskatchewan government. This brings the provincial total to 42,695 cases; 39,954 recoveries and 2,239 cases are considered active.Twenty-f...

May 07, 2021