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Public health is reminding everyone to stay safe on Halloween weekend, with a set of tips to avoid COVID-19 transmission.

Provincial officials say the relocation of some ICU patients and the addition of outside resources is helping Sask.'s overwhelmed health care staff.

Starting Monday, Nov. 8, visitors to Saskatchewan Health Authority acute care facilities and long term care facilities will require proof of vaccination or a negative test.

The beginnings of a plan to vaccinate children 5-11 years old in Sask. are now public, with more details expected later in November.

Support nurses are incoming from Ontario to prop up overwhelmed ICUs, say Sask. officials, but no gathering restrictions to slow transmission are on the horizon.

Select COVID-19 patients will be able to receive monoclonal antibody treatment beginning this week, says public health.

More than 70 schools in the province have reported COVID-19 outbreaks in the last two weeks, data shows.

The focus is on transferring the patients dealing with COVID-19 out of province

“Scott Moe’s decisions [have] moved him from being a national embarrassment to international embarrassment." - Opposition leader Ryan Meili.

Sask.'s top doctor said change is needed to curb the overwhelming rate of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the province.