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The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is warning people about attending rallies against COVID restrictions as a convoy of people parade through the prairies.
Chris Saccoccia, who identifies himself as ‘Chris Sky’, has been travelling around Canada holding rallies against COVID measures as well as speaking out against vaccines.
“We aren’t going to stop,” Saccoccia said in a live-streamed video Saturday morning, on a stage bearing an upside down Saskatchewan flag. “We are going to get our freedom back.”
Saccoccia’s convoy is planning on visiting Maple Creek as well as Regina Saturday.
Dr. Kevin Wasko, physician executive of integrated rural health for the SHA, says protests going against COVID restrictions are more risky now than ever before.
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One doctor in Saskatchewan believes COVID-19 variants of concern aren’t exclusively attaching themselves to young people.
“It’s not that they particularly attack younger people over older people, it’s that they attack everybody more,” said Dr. Kevin Wasko, who’s the provincial physician lead with the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA).
He said COVID is impacting younger people more than it did before because many older people in the province have some level of protection after receiving at least one vaccination dose.
“Right now we know the variant that’s dominant is the U.K. variant in Saskatchewan, and particularly in southern Saskatchewan, and the vaccines that are available to us right now all work very well against that variant,” Wasko said.
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