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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…

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadian companies are now producing so much personal protective equipment needed in the fight against COVID-19 that Canada is almost at the point of being self-sufficient. He underscored that contention today with a visit to a Kanata, Ont., brewery that has retooled to make hand sanitizer during the pandemic. The visit to Big Rig Brewery, which has…

REGINA -- A biochemistry professor at the University of Regina has received nearly $1 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to research “the therapeutic and diagnostic gaps associated with COVID-19.” “This CIHR funding is an important step towards helping a team of dedicated scientists develop peptide therapeutics and point-of-care diagnostics to effectively…

Saskatoon’s mayor delivered a statement in the daily newspaper on a Thursday, announcing a dozen new pandemic cases in the city to bring the total to 32. Let’s break that sentence down: The mayor was Alexander M. Young, the newspaper was The Saskatoon Daily Star, the Thursday was Oct. 17, 1918 and the pandemic was the Spanish Flu. A century later, we’re getting no specific…