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Dr. Volker Gerdts is already thinking about the next pandemic. The director and CEO of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization — International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) and his team have been working on a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, since before it even had a name. On January 21, just as the organization got federal approval to work on…

Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Health is joining other provinces across western Canada by no longer providing a daily coronavirus update. As of Canada Day, data related to COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan will no longer be updated on weekends and statutory holidays, says the government of Saskatchewan. Going forward, news releases and updates will be posted Monday…

OTTAWA -- New national modelling on the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada shows that “hotspots” remain in Ontario and Quebec, and the percentage of younger people contracting the virus has increased in proportion to a decrease in older patients in the last month. Federal health officials are projecting that as of July 12 the country could see between 103,940 and 108,130 cases, and between…

A saliva test to see if you have COVID-19 is being developed here in Saskatchewan. The province's two universities received $1.5 million in federal funding to create a test that detects SARS-CoV-2 peptides, or proteins, in a person's saliva along with a prototype testing device. The research is part of a broader University of Regina led project. Dr. Walter Siqueira of the University…

Saskatchewan's government will continue reporting COVID-19 numbers using six "huge" location zones, despite the province's chief medical health officer saying weeks ago that it would start releasing data in a more detailed map.  On June 2 Dr. Saqib Shahab said that, when sharing details of where in the province COVID-19 cases were found, the government would…