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'Hallway medicine:' Backlogs making paramedics wait with patients up to 16 hours
Paramedics in Saskatchewan are sometimes spending entire shifts just waiting with patients to be admitted to hospital - a wait that can last up to 16 hours with a single patient. “In the paramed...
Sep 20, 2021
Latest COVID update Sept. 18: 499 new cases, 1 new death
Saskatchewan reported 499 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday along with one additional death. The death was located in the North East zone and brings the provincial death toll to 638. According to the ...
Sep 18, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Riders fans react to vaccine requirement; small group shows up to protest
For the first time, Saskatchewan Roughriders fans needed to prove they were vaccinated to get into Mosaic Stadium on Friday night. Many fans didn't seem to mind the new system at all. 980 CJME went to...
Sep 17, 2021 Workers at Mosaic Stadium check fans' vaccination status at the "Vaxx Pass" station on Sept. 17, 2021. (Dominick Lucyk/980 CJME)
Meili calls on Moe to resume news conferences, release COVID data to public
After seven new COVID-19 deaths and 472 new cases were announced Friday, Saskatchewan NDP Leader Ryan Meili wants to see more done. Meili called for Premier Scott Moe to respond to several demands in ...
Sep 17, 2021
Rapid tests not yet widely available, say Saskatoon and Regina school divisions
Premier Scott Moe says the provincial government is to release more detailed information about where, when and how the public can access self-administered rapid antigen tests throughout the province. ...
Sep 17, 2021
Latest COVID update Sept. 17: 472 new cases, 7 deaths reported
The Saskatchewan government reported Friday the deaths of seven people due to COVID-19, the most in a day since late March. The latest deaths included one person in the 20-to-39 age range, one in the ...
Sep 17, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/980 CJME file photo)
Moe again defends timing of government's decisions on COVID
Where is the apology? That has been a popular question raised over the past 24 hours since Premier Scott Moe unveiled more COVID-19 measures. Some critics claim Moe should have apologized for not putt...
Sep 17, 2021 Premier Scott Moe. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Shahab decries 'misinformation' among unvaccinated in Sask.
As he has done in numerous media conferences over the past 18 months, Dr. Saqib Shahab on Thursday urged Saskatchewan residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19. But Saskatchewan's chief medical hea...
Sep 16, 2021 Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Sept. 16: 439 new cases, 1 new death
Saskatchewan reported 439 new COVID-19 cases and one new death Thursday. The seven-day average of new COVID cases rose to a record high of 438. The province also announced one more death, pushing the ...
Sep 16, 2021
Mandatory masking, vaccine passports coming to Saskatchewan
Just over two months after dropping all COVID-19 public health measures -- and with new and active cases increasing at a high rate -- Saskatchewan is bringing back one measure and instituting another....
Sep 16, 2021 Premier Scott Moe. (Facebook Live)
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