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The province has reported a single death in the Central East zone. Provincial health officials said June 15 the person was in the 70 to 79 age group. The Central East zone includes Humboldt, Yorkton and Melville.

HUMBOLDT — A fundraising effort for a $20,000 surgical microscope used to insert tubes into the ears of child patients has been launched by the Humboldt District Hospital Foundation.

Canadian dollars were the "dirtiest and most dangerous currency in the world."

There are a number of places listed on the government’s Saskatchewan Dashboard as being sites of COVID-19 outbreaks in the North West zone. The latest to be added are Leoville Central School (Gr. 5/6, 9/10, 12 and Paulton Bus Route) and St.

Two news deaths were reported Wednesday in the provincial government’s daily COVID-19 report. One death was reported in the 80+ age group from the North West Zone and one death was reported in the 70 to 79 age group from the Central East zone.

Vaccines Reported An additional 12,013 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 922,335.

MELFORT — Kevin Nagy never left his daughter Jayda's side for 12 days. The Melfort 14-year-old was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis, a condition where the body's immune system turns against its liver.

We are now entering a new phase of COVID-19, according to Saskatchewan Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab. That phase is how we all learn to live alongside COVID-19. The previous 15 months had been mainly about “managing a pandemic,” Dr.

NIPAWIN — Other than deliveries by MTN Disposal, the Boreal Area Regional Waste Authority Inc. (BARWA) has temporarily closed landfill closed access to household waste due to a fire on the site.

MELFORT — Residents of Cairns Avenue East in Melfort have petitioned and successfully opted out of the addition of sidewalk, curbs and gutters to a block of the subdivision.