{"id":10086,"date":"2026-10-06T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:58:33","slug":"sask-opens-flu-and-covid-immunization-bookings-as-sickness-circulates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/sask-opens-flu-and-covid-immunization-bookings-as-sickness-circulates\/","title":{"rendered":"Sask. opens flu and COVID immunization bookings as sickness circulates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saskatchewan has opened bookings for flu and COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>The flu has been circulating this past month, with some parts of the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/flu-season-ahead-of-schedule-ontario-cases-9.7370097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">experiencing an early start to flu season<\/a>. Health Canada reported <a href=\"https:\/\/health-infobase.canada.ca\/respiratory-virus-surveillance\/#laboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">815 confirmed influenza cases<\/a> for the week ending Sept.&nbsp;26, compared to 291 in the week ending Sept.&nbsp;5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are beginning to have increased activity in the community, so more people getting sick, also getting some outbreaks earlier on,&#8221; said Dr. Vivian Onaemo, a medical health officer based in Saskatoon, who leads the city&#8217;s public immunizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saskatchewan has opened bookings for flu and COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>The flu has been circulating this past month, with some parts of the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/flu-season-ahead-of-schedule-ontario-cases-9.7370097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">experiencing an early start to flu season<\/a>. Health Canada reported <a href=\"https:\/\/health-infobase.canada.ca\/respiratory-virus-surveillance\/#laboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">815 confirmed influenza cases<\/a> for the week ending Sept.&nbsp;26, compared to 291 in the week ending Sept.&nbsp;5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are beginning to have increased activity in the community, so more people getting sick, also getting some outbreaks earlier on,&#8221; said Dr. Vivian Onaemo, a medical health officer based in Saskatoon, who leads the city&#8217;s public immunizations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/sask-opens-flu-and-covid-immunization-bookings-as-sickness-circulates\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sask. opens flu and COVID immunization bookings as sickness circulates<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,77,14,362,15],"class_list":["post-10086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-influenza","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-saskatchewan","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10087,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}