Source: CBC News, April 20, 2018
There were 1,306 more lab-confirmed cases of the flu compared to last year
Saskatchewan’s latest flu season saw more than three times as many deaths as the previous year, along with a 68.7 per cent increase in the overall number of flu sufferers.
There were 13 deaths due to influenza from Sept. 1, 2017 to March 31 of this year, compared to four during a similar span a year previous, according to a provincial government report.
