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Passengers travelling by plane to, from or within Canada will soon have to undergo temperature checks before boarding as part of stepped-up airport screening measures meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by travellers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today. "Our government is mandating temperature screening for air passengers through a phased approach, first for those travelling to…

The bad guys slipped the virus into the eHealth Saskatchewan computer system on Dec. 20. For the next 17 days, it crept undetected through the network, copying some of the most sensitive health and personal information collected by government. This massive intrusion stopped Jan. 6, but not because the cyberthieves were caught. That's when the shakedown began. Employees trying to access…

Paramedics in Saskatoon say May was a record month for overdose calls. Medavie Health Services West spokesman Troy Davies said ambulances responded to 262 overdoes calls last month. The opioid antidote naloxone, sometimes referred to under the brand name Narcan, was administered 48 times. “That’s a number we’ve never seen before in the history of our service,” Davies…

Samwel Uko's uncle says he recently found out his nephew visited the Regina General Hospital not once, but twice on the day he died. The second time, he was escorted out by security just a couple of hours before he was found dead in Wascana Lake.  The 20-year-old from Abbotsford, B.C., was in Regina visiting an aunt when he died on May 21. Justin Nyee, Uko's uncle from…

Cassidy Siebert is a registered nurse, who has worked in the emergency room in Arcola Health Centre. When the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) called out for nurses to help with the COVID-19 outbreak in northern Saskatchewan, Siebert didn’t think twice. “SHA came and they were needing nurses to go up north to help with the outbreak in La Loche. I answered back immediately that I…