Posted: Apr 13, 2021 2:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 13
Chelsea Dreher says she wants a prospective deadline for when long-term care residents will be able to have more visitors.(Submitted by Chelsea Dreher)
Chelsea Dreher, 32, is fully vaccinated after receiving her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in late February, but she hasn t been able to leave her ward, go outside or visit other residents for almost two weeks.
That s because she lives at the Wascana Rehabilitation Centre, a long-term care facility in Regina, and her particular ward has been under a lockdown since a staff member tested positive for COVID-19 a little less than two weeks ago, she said.
Posted: Mar 15, 2021 6:31 PM CT | Last Updated: March 15
Dr. Anand Kumar, ICU attending physician for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, worries about a slight uptick in daily cases and test positivity rate amid Manitoba s reopening.(John Woods/The Canadian Press)
Some health professionals aren t convinced Manitoba should be reopening at its current pace, due to the increase of coronavirus variants in the province and a test positivity rate that s beginning to creep up again.
Manitoba has gradually relaxed COVID-19 restrictions since the new year as daily cases, test positivity rates, deaths and hospitalizations have declined.
Most businesses are allowed to be open by now at limited capacities. As of this weekend, people from different households can eat together at outdoor restaurant patios. Worshippers are allowed to take their masks off, if they re sitting a fair distance from people who they don t live with.
Long-awaited kidney transplant a success By: Tyler Clarke
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After more than three years of delays and complications, Steve Hays finally has a new kidney.
In what he has been told was the first live donor transplant since level red restrictions came into play, Steve joined his wife, Lora, in going under the knife on Feb. 18.
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Steve and Lora Hay, at their home in Rapid City with their dogs, Cooper, Karma and Willow, early last year. Lora donated a kidney to her husband last month.
Lora donated a kidney to her husband, and said she wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Author of the article: Jordan Haworth
Publishing date: Mar 05, 2021 • March 5, 2021 • 2 minute read • LoriAnn Laramee, public health nurse, prepares dilutant for the COVID-19 vaccine in the COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, Wednesday, December 16, 2020. Qualified Manitobans received their first inoculation in the COVID-19 vaccination. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods Photo by John Woods /Pool/Winnipeg Sun
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Robocalls will be among the tools used to alert those over 80 years of age with receive home care for chronic medical conditions, the Eastern Ontario Health Unit said Friday.
“Rest assured, these are legitimate robocalls,” said the EOHU in the press release.