By Ryan Young
COVID-19 vaccine intake for Yorkton and surrounding area has slightly increased over the past week.
SHA Local Medical Health Officer Dr. Ashok Chhetri says about 68 percent have had their first dose while 42 percent is fully-immunized as of this week.
It’s a small bump from about 66 percent of people receiving a first dose and about 31 percent fully-vaccinated from the previous week.
For youth between the ages of 12 and 17, Dr. Chhetri says 47 percent have had one dose, while 3 percent is fully-vaccinated.
For people between 18-and-29-years-old in the Yorkton area, Chhetri says about 48 percent received their first dose and 14 percent had their second dose.
Photo by File Photo The current situation regarding COVID-19 is one where the public needs to remain particularly diligent in its action to prevent the disease and its spread. That was the clear message from Dr. Ashok Chhetri, Medical Health Officer, Saskatchewan Health Authority in Yorkton in an interview Monday. article continues below
Trending Stories The great concern at present are variant strains of COVID getting a foothold, and Chhetri said they are being seen in the east central area, not that variants of viruses are that unusual. “All the viruses do change or mutate from time-to-time,” he explained. In some cases the changes are rather insignificant, and other times changes become more concerning.
An Open Letter to the People of Saskatchewan from your Community Medical Health Officers in Saskatchewan
On Monday, March 29, 2021, the Province of Saskatchewan launched a campaign titled Stick It To COVID aimed at encouraging Saskatchewan residents to get their COVID-19 vaccine when it’s their turn.
One of the most important things we can ask you to do is get vaccinated. The vaccines available are safe, effective and they will save countless lives. They are also part of our path back to normalcy. But for some, the effect of the vaccines will not come soon enough. Unless we take all of our other public health precautions seriously in the days ahead, some will not survive to see those normal days.
Yorkton Health Centre outbreak declared over By Josh Sigurdson
The COVID-19 outbreak at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre has finally been declared over.
Interim Director of Acute Care for the Yorkton area, Janna-Lea Yawney, says the outbreak in the 1st East and West inpatient medical units was declared over on Wednesday (Mar. 10), by the local SHA Medical Health Officer, Dr. Ashok Chhetri.
“We are extremely happy,” Yawney said. “That shows that all of the measures we implemented and put into place were beneficial and helped us work towards resolving any further viral transmission.”
The medical units were on Saskatchewan’s outbreak list since January 19th and it had been several weeks since the last case was connected to the outbreak.
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