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SASKATOON -- As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, more and more people are choosing to wear gloves when they venture out into public, but a Saskatoon clinical microbiologist says people still need to be careful. “If you have a glove on and it's contaminated, and you're touching your face, particularly your vulnerable areas like your eyes, your nose and your mouth. Just because you…

More personal protective equipment (PPE) has been donated to front line health care workers. Seven pallets of PPE and other supplies gathered from Sask Polytechnic campuses will be distributed to health regions across the province. “Instead of just doing it piecemeal, since we cover the province, we decided to take a coordinated approach,” said Cheryl Schmitz, Sask…

The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses is calling on the premier to rethink “reopening Saskatchewan.” “We’re very fearful as registered nurses and health-care workers that when the premier starts to speak in these terms and musing about opening the province, it puts us in a very precarious position,” the union’s president, Tracy Zambory, said in an interview with…

Two of Saskatchewan’s largest unions representing health care workers want Premier Scott Moe to rein in talk of reopening the province’s economy, warning it’s too early to relax measures that have slowed the spread of COVID-19. Tracy Zambory, president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, said she was shocked when Moe said Monday that a plan to gradually reopen businesses…

SASKATOON -- University of Saskatchewan researchers and three local companies are helping to address a provincial shortage of hand sanitizer using a campus bioprocessing facility to temporarily produce sanitizer and key ingredients, while a group of collaborating businesses gear up for larger-scale production. The university’s Bioprocessing Pilot Plant was producing hand sanitizer - up to…