long-term care home where people have COVID-19 is terrifying.“It’s terrifying to everybody,” said the resident of Pioneer Village in Regina, who told Global News she had requested special permission to come outdoors to do a masked and distanced interview on Wednesday.
Saskatchewan no longer holding back coronavirus vaccine doses Pioneer Village takes COVID-19 and the protocols necessary to mitigate it very seriously, she explained, because if the spread gets out of control, the outcomes are devastating.Statistics provided by Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Health show that of the 155 COVID-19-related deaths reported in the province in 2020, 65 were in care home settings, with about two-thirds linked to a single facility: Parkside.