There were also five new cases announced in the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/South Indian Lake/Granveile health district. The Town of Lyn Lake said Jan. 5 that the first six cases of the virus in that community had been confirmed and that all the people who tested positive were self-isolating. Other northern health districts reporting new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday included the Bay Line district and The Pas/Opaskwayak/Kelsey district with four cases each, the Cross Lake/Pimicikamak district with two and three other districts with one new case each. A woman in her 40s from the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/South Indian Lake/Granveile health district is the north s latest death as a result of COVID-19, according to the province s online COVID-19 dashboard, one of 10 new deaths announced Jan. 6. In total, 705 Manitobans have died as a result of the virus. Despite the additional death of a northerner, the province’s online dashboard continues to list the number of
Northern Manitoba had 51 new cases of COVID-19 announced Dec. 17, including 24 in the Oxford House health district, 14 in the Island Lake district and 10 in the Thompson/Mystery Lake district. Manitoba announced 221 new cases of COVID-19 Dec. 17, close to a quarter of which were in the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA). The Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/God’s River/God’s lake health district is the current hot spot for new cases of the virus in the north, with 24 new cases reported on Thursday and 102 active cases. There were also 14 new cases in the Island Lake health district, which now has 193 active cases, and 10 in Thompson/Mystery Lake, which has 52 active cases. The Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake health district has the most active cases of COVID-19 in the north, at 256. A net increase fo 51 cases was reported in the north on Thursday, including 53 new cases and two previously reported cases being removed from the total.
The province announced 47 new cases of COVID-19 in the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA) Dec. 16 but health district numbers on the provincial government’s COVID-19 web page showed only 33 new cases, with another 23 cases removed from previous totals. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the north only went up by 10 from yesterday, data on the web page shows. Most of the new northern cases were from the Island Lake health district, which had 20 more cases than on Tuedsay, while there were seven new cases in the Thompson/Mystery Lake health district and five in the Shamattawa/Yokrk Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake health district.
The Island Lake health district had the most new cases in the north on Tuesday, with 24, followed by the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/God’s River/God’s Lake health district with seven, Sayisi Dene/Tadoule/Barren Lands/Brochet/Northlands/Lac Brochet health district with six, the Thompson/Mystery Lake health district with five and The Pas/Opaskwayak/Kelsey health district with four. There are 701 active cases in the north, according to the provincial government’s online dashboard, with three health districts – Bunibonibee, Island Lake and Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake – accounting for 500 of those cases There are 1,601 cases in the north and the number of northerners hospitalized due to the virus increased to 31 on Tuesday, with two of those receiving intensive care. Across the province, 311 people were in hospital being treated for active COVID-19 infections, 44 of them in intensive care.
As the New Year approaches, the legislature has ended its fall sitting. We did our best to delay some truly egregious legislation the Pallister government brought in. As the Official Opposition we did our job and will continue to stand up for Manitobans. 2020 has been a tough year for Manitobans due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Pallister government has only made matters worse. They’ve pushed through hydro rate increases while people were already struggling to make ends meet and have continued with health care cuts during a public health crisis. We in Flin Flon have seen nothing but cuts in health care from this government with closures of units of our hospital one after the other. Homecare is a disaster highlighted during COVID-19, but it was short staffed well before, with people not getting the care they should be entitled to.