WINNIPEG — Manitoba health officials say three more people have tested positive for the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant first found in the United Kingdom.Dr. Jazz Atwal, the acting deputy chief public . . .
Janessa and her siblings wearing masks. (Supplied by CHFM)
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The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs alongside the Children’s Hospital Foundation are supplying 30,000 masks to First Nations in Manitoba to help protect them against the coronavirus.
AMC and CHFM are partnering together to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in Manitoba s First Nations communities. They are also making masks available to all children visiting the HSC Children’s Hospital Emergency Department.
The AMC has donated $75,000 to the foundation in order to help support the health needs of First Nations children.
According to the press release, First Nations people are currently most likely to be infected through close contact from a known case of COVID-19. This is due to a myriad of socio-economic factors such as overcrowded housing, lack of essential water infrastructure to sanitize homes and hands, lack of access to quality health care - all of which have put Fi
First Nations children and their families are receiving a special delivery to help protect them during the pandemic thanks to a partnership between the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and the Children s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Danielle Da Silva and Dylan Robertson | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021
Winnipeg Free Press
A highly contagious variant of COVID-19, which first appeared in the United Kingdom, was mistakenly suspected in seven COVID-19 cases on a northern First Nation because it shares the same markers as a Manitoba variant of the virus.
Over the weekend, there were concerns the B.1.1.7 mutation had arrived on the remote Pauingassi First Nation in the thick of a COVID-19 outbreak.
On Tuesday, chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin said the seven cases had been processed by the National Microbiology Lab and came back negative for the U.K. variant.