Tag Archives: Health
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
Extended temporary closure of COVID-19 drive-thru testing in P.A.
The drive-thru testing site in Prince Albert will remain closed Monday.The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) closed the site on the weekend due to the extreme cold temperatures. It was expected to r...
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
COVID-19 drive-thru testing site to close Saturday and Sunday, re-open Monday
The COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in Prince Albert will be closed on Saturday and Sunday due to the extreme cold temperatures.The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), who made the announcement on F...
Feb 05, 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
Positive case of COVID-19 identified at St. John Community School
The Prince Albert Catholic School division has announced an individual from St. John Community School in Prince Albert has tested positive for COVID-19.According to a media release, the Saskatchewan H...
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
