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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…

REGINA -- The province of Saskatchewan is reporting two new cases and 14 recoveries on Monday. Eight people are in hospital, the province says. No one is currently in the ICU. Saskatchewan now has 300 confirmed cases of the virus. Of that total, 118 cases are considered active. All cases are confirmed. The province is reporting 14 more recoveries, for a provincial total of 178 recoveries.…

A pregnant nurse in Regina is raising concerns about the risk of being exposed to COVID-19 on the job and what she feels is a lack of accommodations to protect her. The woman requested her identity be kept confidential because she is worried about retribution from her managers or employer. For the purposes of this story, she will be called ‘Anne.’ In line with the official…