No new possible public exposures or outbreaks have been announced in the Northern Health Region (NHR), but new cases have been concentrated in four districts - the Island Lake district (where five new cases were reported Friday), Grand Rapids/Misipawistik/Moose Lake/Mosakahiken/Easterville/Chemawawin (eight new cases), The Pas/OCN/Kelsey (four new cases) and the Flin Flon district. Over the past five days, no other northern district has reported more new COVID-19 cases than The Pas/OCN/Kelsey - the district has seen 20 new cases from May 31-June 4. The Grand Rapids district has reported 14 new cases over that timeframe, while the Flin Flon district has reported 10 new cases over that time.
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Acting Health Minister Kelvin Goertzen said the province has made a “competitive offer” to nurses despite the union’s threat of strike action on the weekend over stalled negotiations.
The Manitoba Nurses Union has been without a collective bargaining agreement for four years, Goertzen said negotiations have only been going on in earnest since this past fall. Negotiations were stalled due to the redistribution of the bargaining units and then the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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One new case was reported in the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon district, along with two recoveries from the disease. The main locale of recent northern cases has been The Pas/OCN/Kelsey, where 50 people - including six new people in the last day - have active cases of COVID-19. The remote Island Lake district has the most active cases of COVID-19 of any northern district at 69, but numbers there are declining. Case numbers in remote districts like Island Lake can also be inflated and outdated, due to delays in cases in the districts being marked by provincial officials as active and recovered .