COVID-19: Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe rejects calls for gathering restrictions
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Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said he does not want to bring in restrictions for the 'vast' majority of the population who are vaccinated against COVID-19.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has rejected calls to re-impose gathering restrictions in the province.
Moe said he does not want to bring in the restrictions for the “vast” majority of the population who are vaccinated against COVID-19.
“We’re not going to be implementing broad-based restrictions on 80-some per cent of the population that has gone out and gotten their first shot,” he said during a briefing Thursday.
“The vast majority of Saskatchewan people have done the right thing, and we’re very resistant to the fact of imposing broad-based restrictions across society.”
Saskatchewan NDP Leader Ryan Meili has called for limitations on gatherings until COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations stabilize.
“We are one of two provinces without gathering restrictions leading into this Thanksgiving long weekend,” Meili said in a statement after Moe’s briefing.
“Scott Moe and Jason Kenney put politics above people’s health. It did not have to be this way.”
The City of Saskatoon, the Saskatchewan Medical Association and the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses have also asked the province to restrict gathering sizes.
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