Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab. (Evan Radford/980 CJME)

By CKOM News Staff

Saskatchewan records an eighth case of COVID-19

Mar 17, 2020 | 3:19 PM

There is an eighth COVID-19 case in Saskatchewan.

It is a person who travelled to a dental conference in Vancouver, much like one of the Regina cases.

One of the eight cases has been hospitalized, but everyone else has been at home and getting healthy again within the two-week period. The hospitalized individual wasn’t a result of the virus.

So far there still isn’t any local transmission, so no further preventative measures are being announced. But Saskatchewan’s chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab, says discussions are ongoing.

Shahab told reporters Tuesday that 880 tests have been done in the province to date — 405 in the southern areas, 284 in Saskatoon and 191 in the north.

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