The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses is calling on the premier to rethink “reopening Saskatchewan.” “We’re very fearful as registered nurses and health-care workers that when the premier starts to speak in these terms and musing about opening the province, it puts us in a very precarious position,” the union’s president, Tracy Zambory, said in an interview with Global News. “We are there to try to keep everyone safe.” Saskatchewan announced the closure of schools on March 16 and declared a state of emergency on March 18.
Restrictions limiting group gatherings, businesses from operating storefronts and providing personal care services and clinics from performing elective procedures have followed.