Far North West drives spike in COVID-19 cases on Wednesday
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No remaining COVID-19 cases in Flin Flon, Snow Lake district, one case left in far north east 2 zone
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The Flin Flon district is one of several districts in the Northern Health Region (NHR) where one or no active cases of COVID-19 are currently present, according to provincial government statistics. Only one district in the NHR - Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/O-Pipon-Na-Piwin/Granville Lake - has no active cases, but the Churchill region (which is covered by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority) also has no active cases found. By contrast, the NHR still has 209 active cases of the disease, with more than 40 per cent of those active cases in The Pas/OCN/Kelsey district. That district has 85 active cases as of July 13, ahead of the second-highest district, the Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake district, which has 63 active cases.
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Chief Bartholomew Tsannie said one resident is in hospital in critical condition and urged members to respect a local lockdown to drive alarmingly high case counts down.
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“The people disobeying need to understand we’re talking about lives here,” Tsannie said.
Hatchet Lake Dene Nation, located more than 800 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, has become the unlikely epicentre of COVID-19 in a province that has recently dropped its last public health restrictions.
The Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) said 151 cases of COVID-19 had been linked to the outbreak in the community of roughly 1,200 residents. Tsannie said 128 cases were active as of Tuesday afternoon.