Posted: Apr 26, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 26
Lori Hildebrandt and her dad, Rudy Pankratz, 86, enjoy a sunny day outside his Winnipeg nursing home last summer. Hildebrandt says she s hardly seen her father since the COVID-19 pandemic hit because visiting hours have been reduced at Bethania Mennonite Personal Care Home.(Submitted by Lori Hildebrandt)
People living in personal care homes have seen a reduction in quality of life since the pandemic hit. Programming has been cancelled and now families say they aren t able to visit loved ones as often as they would like.
The vast majority of personal care homes (PCHs) in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority surveyed by CBC 14 out of 15 have reduced visiting hours since the pandemic hit.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.1 per cent provincially and 8.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on January 12, 2021, 92 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, two cases were removed due to data correction and brings to net new cases to 90 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 26,540.
For the first time since the middle of October, Manitoba’s single-day new case count dipped below 100 on Tuesday as COVID-19 trends in the province continue to…
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