Weyburn Review

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“We are all in this together.” You have seen and heard this a lot, with restrictions in place to help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.

To help lessen the impacts of many challenges in the provincial agriculture sector, the Government of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) are working together to lift spring road bans for priority goods.

Premier Scott Moe was joined by Finance Minister Donna Harpauer on Friday to announce the preliminary revenue impacts for Saskatchewan due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The potential revenue decline in 2020-21 ranges from $1.3 billion to $3.

Saskatchewan’s Chief Medical Health Officer has amended the restrictions to protect vulnerable seniors, and announced the province has one new case and one new presumptive case of COVID-19 as of April 17, bringing the total to 307 reported cases.

At this moment, when an expected surge in COVID-19 patients has yet to arrive, physicians, residents and other health-care workers may be feeling a sense of “anticipatory anxiety,” said Brenda Senger, director of the Saskatchewan Medical Association’

In January 2018, Saskatchewan RCMP received the complaint of an individual whose name was used without his permission and knowledge in a fraudulent transaction online.

Leader of the Official Opposition Ryan Meili called on the province to match federal support with $1.5 million in emergency funding towards Saskatchewan food banks. “This is not a moment for the province to be cheap,” said Meili.

Saskatchewan has one new confirmed case of COVID-19 as of April 16, according to the latest report by Saskatchewan Health, bringing the provincial total to 305. Eighty-two of the cases are considered active.

Column by Linda Wegner