As a number of schools across Saskatchewan continue to deal with COVID-19, including a high test positivity rate among youth, Official Opposition Education Critic Carla Beck is calling on the province to proactively create a plan to rollout vaccinations to kids ages five to 11 in advance of their approval and to create a pre-registration […]
On Monday, Oct. 4, the second phase of Saskatchewan’s COVID-19 booster shot program will commence. Eligible residents will include everyone over the age of 80, those who are immunocompromised, and anyone considered extremely clinically vulnerable with auto-immune diseases. Six months must pass since receiving a second dose of the vaccine, in order to receive the […]
Pfizer-BioNTech is hoping to have a COVID-19 vaccine available for children ages five to 11 in the near future. The company has said its vaccine works well in children five to 11, and because of that, will soon seek authorization for emergency use in the United States. This comes after a clinical trial with 2,268 […]
The Government of Saskatchewan announced Thursday that all residents aged 12 and older are now eligible for their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The announcement comes a day after the province set an inoculation record with nearly 25,000 doses administered. Health Minister Paul Merriman says as the reopening of the province draws near, it doesn’t […]
Saskatchewan has reached the Step Three threshold on the province Re-Opening Roadmap, with 70 per cent of Saskatchewan residents age 18 and older having received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. That means Step Three will begin on Sunday, July 11- three weeks after Step Two, which begins on Sunday. In Step Three, the […]
The Saskatchewan NDP are calling on the government to adopt a “Last Mile” strategy to ensure all Saskatchewan residents have access to a COVID-19 vaccine. The opposition points to an Angus Reid poll showing Saskatchewan has the highest vaccine hesitancy in the country, and claims that demand is plateauing. NDP Leader Ryan Meili says more […]
As the rate of Canadians who have been vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine grows to more than 50 per cent of the adults, new data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute shows Canadians have moved consistently and significantly away from attitudes of “don’t know” or “wait and see” to a […]
Residents 85 and over, or anyone who received a shot before February 15th is eligible Monday for their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine. First doses continue to be given to those 20 and older. Vaccination appointments can still be made online or over the phone. However Regina’s drive-thru clinic is closed until Wednesday. To date […]
The province’s health minister is confident Saskatchewan residents will continue to get their vaccine as more become available. With more than 500,000 vaccines already administered in the province, Minister Paul Merriman is happy to see people lining up to get their shot. While uptake in older age groups seems to be slowing down, Merriman says […]
A Regina resident made headlines this week for producing software that’s helping Saskatchewan residents find COVID vaccine appointments and clinics near them. Brock Lumbard, a software engineering and business student at Western University in London, Ontario, created a program that allows residents to text their postal code to 1-306-517-7062 in order to see where vaccinations […]
