Tag Archives: Health
Lloydminster remains shutdown, but nearby golf courses opening
A province-wide plan to re-open select businesses this month remains on pause in Lloydminster. Meanwhile golf courses outside city limits will begin to cautiously allow players.The province has delaye...
May 04, 2020 Golfers appear in a stock image. (Submitted/Rollings Greens Fairways)
Optometry, other services open in Battlefords as Phase 1 begins
Residents in the Battlefords were finally able to get to appointments at secondary medical services Monday, in what is hopefully a first step towards a post shut down world.The first phase of the Reop...
May 04, 2020 Parkview Optometric Services is one of several medical offices that opened their doors today. (Josh Ryan/battlefordsNOW)
LLRIB sets requirements for upcoming election to prevent spread of COVID-19
Notice has been served to Lac La Ronge Indian Band voters about where, when and how they can cast a ballot in a variety of communities.That's according to a public notice released May 4, which states ...
May 04, 2020 LLRIB elections will go ahead despite COVID-19. (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Ontario calls for a national strategy on contact tracing of COVID-19 cases
TORONTO - Ontario's premier is calling for a national strategy on contact tracing. Doug Ford says he spoke with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday about the matter and planned to make t...
May 04, 2020
China says faulty masks a 'contractual' matter that has been fixed
OTTAWA - The Chinese embassy in Ottawa claimed Monday that the one million faulty N95 masks that arrived in Canada from China last month were the result of a "contractual" issue that has now been...
May 04, 2020
Nunavut's first COVID-19 case turns out to be false positive
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Canada's High Arctic may still be free of the novel coronavirus. A case of COVID-19 supposedly confirmed in the remote Nunavut community of Pond Inlet last week has turned out to be...
May 04, 2020
Online COVID-19 threat a fake after P.A.put on alert
A woman who threatened to come to Prince Albert and spread COVID-19 - which prompted an emergency response - won't be charged according to a spokesperson for the Saskatchewan RCMP.The Facebook post, w...
May 04, 2020 A Facebook post made on Friday, and soon after deleted, caused a lot of anxiety for people in Prince Albert according to the city's Mayor. (Facebook)
Twenty nine of the province's new COVID-19 cases in Far North
There are 34 new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, 29 of which are in the Far North region. Four and are in the North. There remains one confirmed case at Prince Albert's Victoria Hospital.According ...
May 04, 2020 Saskatchewan's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab. (Lisa Schick/CKOM News Staff)
Not all medical services ready for first phase of Re-Open plan
It is day one of the first phase of the Re-Open Saskatchewan plan amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's a mixed bag regarding which medical services have chosen to open their doors today.Broker's Activ...
May 04, 2020 A welcoming smile, you just can't see it. Office staff at Broker’s Active Care Klinic from left, Tanya Giesbrecht and Diana Broker with Dr. Blaine Broker, re-opened for business Monday. (Glenn Hicks/paNOW Staff)
La Ronge council to request public health order exemption be rescinded
La Ronge council has bowed down to public pressure and has asked the provincial government to rescind a public health order exemption given to the municipality last week.That's according to Coun. Jord...
May 04, 2020 Council backtracked on a decision originally made last week. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)