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Personal care home staff with no symptoms of COVID-19 could soon get testing anyway following the success of a recent pilot project.
Personal care home staff with no symptoms of COVID-19 could soon get testing anyway following the success of a recent pilot project.
The pilot project rapid testing for the novel coronavirus was completed over four weeks starting in mid-December at three personal care homes. It will now be offered to other facilities in the province. So far almost 40 care homes have taken up the offer. The fast identification of a positive test result enables the quickest possible action for the facility and the province, said Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson in a statement on Monday.
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The results of a provincial probe into one of Manitoba s deadliest personal-care home outbreaks remain unknown, even as the health department puts the private facility s licence under review.
The results of a provincial probe into one of Manitoba s deadliest personal-care home outbreaks remain unknown, even as the health department puts the private facility s licence under review.
Maples Personal Care Home in Winnipeg is one of three personal-care homes in Manitoba currently having its licence reviewed because it hasn t been able to keep up with provincial standards, a government spokesperson confirmed Monday. But the province has yet to disclose the findings of a review it commissioned last fall.
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Naloxone kits and harm reduction supplies. Brandon paramedics used more than double the amount of anti-overdose medication in 2020 than the previous year, a trend advocates said is partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic changing the drugs people are using. (File)
Brandon paramedics used more than double the amount of anti-overdose medication in 2020 than the previous year, a trend advocates said is partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic changing the drugs people are using.
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Brandon paramedics used more than double the amount of anti-overdose medication in 2020 than the previous year, a trend advocates said is partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic changing the drugs people are using.
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The pandemic Manitoba thought it flattened in the spring and eliminated over the summer came back to hobble it in autumn, sickening tens of thousands of and killing hundreds. Here s a brief chronicle of how it happened.
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Premier Brian Pallister says he will continue to lead the provincial government at least until the pandemic is over.
IN a recent interview, Premier Brian Pallister revealed that he intends to stick around as premier at least until the COVID-19 pandemic abates, but stopped short of committing to serve out the entirety of his current second term.
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IN a recent interview, Premier Brian Pallister revealed that he intends to stick around as premier at least until the COVID-19 pandemic abates, but stopped short of committing to serve out the entirety of his current second term.