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Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says she will not follow Saskatchewan’s COVID-19 reopening plan that has stages triggered by vaccination rates.
On Sunday, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe announced more than 70 per cent of residents over 40 had received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, triggering the first step of the provincial reopening plan.
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This means that on May 30 restaurants and bars in Saskatchewan can open, places of worship can fill to 30 per cent capacity and group fitness classes can resume. The plan could see the province lift most of its public health restrictions as early as mid-July, with the gradual easing of restrictions based on how many people in given age cohorts have received their first dose of a vaccine.
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CALGARY - Neighbouring provinces are eyeing Saskatchewan s plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions in tandem with vaccination rates, but experts are warning the approach could lead some to a false sense of security.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe waits in line at a COVID-19 vaccination drive-thru clinic at Evraz Place in Regina on Thursday, April 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Taylor
CALGARY - Neighbouring provinces are eyeing Saskatchewan s plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions in tandem with vaccination rates, but experts are warning the approach could lead some to a false sense of security.
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Perhaps the problem after hearing so much nonsense on the pending end of the COVID-19 pandemic, is that it’s hard for some to accept that we might be approaching the beginning of the end.
From former U.S. President Donald Trump telling us the novel coronavirus would one day magically disappear (presumably, even without ingesting bleach) to Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe telling us for the past five months that we are at the finish line, many have had reason to develop an automatic boy-who-cried-wolf response mechanism to such self-serving pronouncements from politicians.
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Winnipeg Free Press By: Editorial | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Thursday, May. 6, 2021
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“If you don’t know where you are going,” said baseball Hall-of-Famer and noted manufacturer of malapropisms Yogi Berra, “you’ll end up someplace else.” If you don’t know where you are going, said baseball Hall-of-Famer and noted manufacturer of malapropisms Yogi Berra, you’ll end up someplace else.
In other words, you’ve got to have a plan.
Questions about planning or, more pointedly, the perceived lack thereof were directed toward the Manitoba government this week after neighbouring Saskatchewan unveiled its detailed and guardedly optimistic Reopen Saskatchewan document, laying out strategies and proposed timelines for lifting pandemic-related restrictions.
Posted: May 07, 2021 9:50 AM CT | Last Updated: May 7
Saskatchewan unveils road map to reopening
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Saskatchewan has unveiled a road map to reopening that could kick in by the end of May based on of the success of its COVID-19 vaccine rollout.1:59