{"id":4604,"date":"2024-02-14T20:08:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2024-02-14T20:08:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:08:43","slug":"free-supply-of-covid-19-tests-coming-to-an-end-in-saskatchewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/free-supply-of-covid-19-tests-coming-to-an-end-in-saskatchewan\/","title":{"rendered":"Free supply of COVID-19 tests coming to an end in Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly four years in the rear-view, measures like masks, social distancing and free COVID-19 test kits have continued to wind down.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Government of Saskatchewan confirmed it will no longer supply free tests, which have been widely available at voluntary distribution sites like public libraries.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the pandemic, the federal government procured and distributed rapid antigen tests to provinces and territories, making them freely available to individuals and families as a way to prevent the spread of the COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly four years in the rear-view, measures like masks, social distancing and free COVID-19 test kits have continued to wind down.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Government of Saskatchewan confirmed it will no longer supply free tests, which have been widely available at voluntary distribution sites like public libraries.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the pandemic, the federal government procured and distributed rapid antigen tests to provinces and territories, making them freely available to individuals and families as a way to prevent the spread of the COVID-19.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/free-supply-of-covid-19-tests-coming-to-an-end-in-saskatchewan\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free supply of COVID-19 tests coming to an end in Saskatchewan<\/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":[96,18,22,14,362],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-rapid-tests","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-saskatchewan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604","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=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4606,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions\/4606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}