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Andrew Elchuk was spring cleaning at his Saskatoon home after returning from a family trip to Europe when he got the news that he had tested positive for COVID-19. He had been feeling tired and short of breath. The notification from e-health confirmed his suspicions as to why.  "It just felt really surreal," said Elchuk, who explained that climbing the stairs in his bi-level…

REGINA -- A Milestone-area woman and her three kids have not seen their husband and father in weeks after he was severely injured in a crash earlier this month. Brian Mandel was airlifted by STARS Air Ambulance to the Regina General Hospital on May 14. Since then his wife, Chelsey, has only been able to see him via video due to COVID-19 restrictions in place on hospital visits. “Your…

A potential COVID-19 vaccine has achieved a "major milestone" in moving toward human clinical trials, according to researchers in Saskatchewan. The University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) said Monday that a vaccine candidate it has developed has proven to be "highly effective" in pre-clinical…

A Saskatoon mother is concerned the Saskatchewan Health Authority is using a hand sanitizing gel that may be harmful to individuals who are nursing or breastfeeding.  A May 21 memo obtained by CBC sent to staff across the authority indicated a type of Health Care Plus Sanitizing Hand Gel "is unsafe for pregnant and nursing women" as it uses "technical grade ethanol…

Dr. Fergall Magee and his team waited for another shipment that never came. The provincial and clinical lead for integrated lab services with the Saskatchewan Health Authority and his colleagues were doing everything they could to get enough swabs, chemicals and equipment to test the people of Saskatchewan for the novel coronavirus. The problem was that nearly every other jurisdiction in the…