Saskatchewan is seeing a spike in emergency room visits among children between the ages of one and four who are showing up with respiratory-like illnesses.
Chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab, said it’s likely COVID-19, because there’s little influenza transmission in the province and vaccines against the virus have not yet been approved for children under five.
“Any COVID-like illness presentation in emergency rooms — where even you may not have been screened in every case — it’s likely COVID-19,” Shahab said in a recent interview with The Canadian Press.
The latest data from the Ministry of Health, dated Feb.
