Posted: May 12, 2021 10:30 PM CT | Last Updated: May 13
Sagkeeng First Nation, located just over 100 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, now has 48 known active cases of COVID-19. That s the most it has had in the community at one time throughout the entire pandemic.(CBC)
A First Nation near Lake Winnipeg is going into lockdown for a month after recording its highest single-day spike of COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began.
Sagkeeng First Nation entered lockdown Wednesday evening after reporting 20 new COVID-19 cases, including 17 variant of concern cases, on Tuesday. There was a record 48 total known active cases in the community Tuesday, according to a COVID-19 bulletin issued by the community.
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A popular local pianist was shot in the abdomen on New Year s Eve in Milton.
The Milton Police Department responded to a shooting in the 500 block of Union Street around 5:15 p.m. Dec. 31. A male victim suffering a single gunshot wound to the torso was transported to Beebe Medical Center by ambulance, according to Chief Derrick Harvey.
A possible suspect was found by state police troopers sitting in a vehicle in a wooded area of Burton Road, Harvey said, and transported to a local hospital. He did not say why.
Harvey did not name the victim or the suspect, but Terri Hoggan-Gratton confirmed her son, Mark A. Gratton, was the victim in a Facebook post.