Provincial health officials announced the lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in the Northern Health Region (NHR) that the region has seen in weeks. The district last reported a number that low when 10 new cases were found Feb. 7, the lowest number seen since Jan. 3, where only three new cases were reported throughout the north. The NHR currently has 577 active cases of COVID-19, down from 586 reported Tuesday. Most of the new cases were reported in the current hardest-hit district in the NHR, the Cross Lake-Pimicikamak district. Canadian Armed Forces personnel landed in Cross Lake Feb. 23 to assist in shutting down the outbreak, which has led to a full lockdown throughout Cross Lake and Pimicikamak Cree Nation. There are now 221 active cases throughout the district.
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) and Shared Health are warning the public about fraudulent communications from people pretending to be WRHA staff.
Getting information from staff on how her mom was doing was hit and miss at best, she said. Less than a week after the surgery, Trowell called to check on her mom and was told she had another fall. They told me she had to get an X-ray. They found her on the floor Saturday night but they never called me to tell me about it. Then I couldn t get the X-ray results, Trowell said.
Plans were being made to send her back to the hospital in The Pas, but the outbreak prevented that. Instead, the decision was made to transfer her to Swan River, about 150 kilometres south of The Pas, at the family s request.
The Thompson/Mystery Lake district reported another 11 cases, bringing them to 74 total active cases - that active case load is down from Thursday, thanks to 13 people now being marked as recovered from COVID-19. The Pas/OCN/Kelsey reported another five cases, but also reported eight recoveries, resulting once again in an active case drop. Only two districts of the NHR - the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon and Pukatawagan/Mathias Colomb districts - have zero active cases of COVID-19. Three other districts are down to one active case. For more details, see below. Manitoba reported 90 net new cases of COVID-19 province-wide and two further deaths from the disease, both in Winnipeg. Provincial health officials also confirmed an additional three cases of the B.1.1.7 variant of COVID-19 - the so-called UK variant - in Manitoba. The exact location of the cases was not announced, but the three cases were all considered to be linked to international travel. All th
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