Some experts believe a fourth wave in Manitoba is likely to be more of a molehill than mountain thanks to increasing rates of vaccination, but one highly contagious variant may still threaten to surge in communities with lower vaccination rates.
One new case was reported in the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon district, along with two recoveries from the disease. The main locale of recent northern cases has been The Pas/OCN/Kelsey, where 50 people - including six new people in the last day - have active cases of COVID-19. The remote Island Lake district has the most active cases of COVID-19 of any northern district at 69, but numbers there are declining. Case numbers in remote districts like Island Lake can also be inflated and outdated, due to delays in cases in the districts being marked by provincial officials as active and recovered .
When Annabelle Steele went into labour early Wednesday morning, the plan was for her and her husband Joseph to drive from their home in Steinbach to hospital in Winnipeg to deliver twins. About 10 kilometres into the drive, it became clear they weren’t going to make it.