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Sioux Valley Dakota Nation borders the heavily travelled Trans-Canada Highway in western Manitoba, yet the community held back waves of COVID-19 cases that swept the area last year. In the opposite corner of the province, Shamattawa First Nation, a remote fly-in community in northeastern Manitoba, had an outbreak so severe that the Canadian military was flown in to help after one-third of the 1,500 residents were infected. MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS COVID-19 checkstops on the roads i...

Local opposition to the Manitoba government’s recent decision to keep health restrictions unchanged for northern Manitoba has begun.

Forty-one northers were in hospital due to COVID-19 on Wednesday, 37 of them with active infections and four of them in intensive care. The NRHA has now had 3,606 total cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Province-wide, there are 281 people in hospital due to the virus, 127 of whose cases are still considered active. Thirty-six of them are in intensive care, including 12 who are no longer considered infectious. Four more deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in Manitoba Jan. 27, bring...

Photograph By Thompson Citizen files Northern Manitoba posted a triple-digit increase in new COVID-19 cases Jan. 21, accounting for more than half of all the new cases in the province and more than Winnipeg and the other three health regions combined. 105 of 198 new cases of the virus announced by the province on Thursday were in the north, with the Island Lake health district seeing 43 new cases, the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/South Indian Lake/Leaf Rapids health district 16 ...

Seventy new COVID-19 cases in northern Manitoba were announced by the province Jan. 20, bringing the region past 1,500 active cases.

“We definitely have a lot of cases within our northern population in certain areas,” Atwal said. There are now more than 1,500 active cases in the north, including more than 500 in the Island Lake health district. The Canadian military is sending personnel to Garden Hill First Nation on Thursday to support the running of the emergency operations centre, set up an isolation area and provide ground transportation, Global News reported. About 73 per cent of active COVID-19 cases were among ...

Posted: Jan 17, 2021 7:31 AM CT | Last Updated: January 17 There are 132 active cases of COVID-19 in Lynn Lake as of Saturday. A little over a week ago, there were only 24 active cases in the town of about 500.(Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press) A small town in northern Manitoba is on high alert as more people test positive for COVID-19 and the province declares an outbreak at the local hospital. As of Saturday, there are 132 known active cases of COVID-19 in the community, according to...

Winnipeg Free Press Save to Read Later As Manitoba ponders loosening its pandemic restrictions, public health officials are watching infection rates surge in the North. As Manitoba ponders loosening its pandemic restrictions, public health officials are watching infection rates surge in the North. Northern Manitoba has one of the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases linked to recent holiday season gatherings, second only to Winnipeg, provincial data show. Test positivity rates in the region h...

The news came on a day when the Northern Health Region (NHR) led the province in new cases once again, reporting 84 of Manitobas 191 new COVID-19 cases reported Jan. 15. Provincial five-day test positivity rates are hovering around 10 per cent, but are decidedly lower in Winnipeg, where 7.2 per cent of tests in the last five days have come up positive. A person has died in the NHR from COVID-19, listed by the provincial government as a man in his 70s from the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rap...

The fastest growth in overall cases has been found in the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/O-Pipon-Na-Piwin/Granville Lake district, where a whopping 57 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in provincial data Jan. 14, bringing the region up to 144 active cases. Help may soon be on the way for the remote community, about 240 kilometres almost due north of Flin Flon. The Town of Lynn Lake announced Jan. 13 that members of Manitoba Task Force Four, a provincial emergency response team from th...