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COVID enforcement officers handed out 58 tickets last week, their highest total in months.
This includes 42 $1,296 tickets of which, 33 were for gatherings in private residences, which have been banned in the last set of health orders. The other nine were for a failure to self-isolate.
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The province issued 20 tickets for a gathering at The Forks on April 25 and have followed up with two tickets at a rally in Winkler this past Saturday and four tickets at a rally at the Winnipeg Law Courts on Monday. The rally in front of the courts was related to an eight-day hearing as seven churches challenge the health orders which have had churches shut down or under restricted capacities for much of the last 14 months. These fines will be included in next week’s report.
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COVID enforcement officers handed out 58 tickets last week, their highest total in months.
This includes 42 $1,296 tickets of which, 33 were for gatherings in private residences, which have been banned in the last set of health orders. The other nine were for a failure to self-isolate.
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Try refreshing your browser, or Manitoba hands out 33 tickets at private gatherings last week, vaccine eligibility updated Back to video
The province issued 20 tickets for a gathering at The Forks on April 25 and have followed up with two tickets at a rally in Winkler this past Saturday and four tickets at a rally at the Winnipeg Law Courts on Monday. The rally in front of the courts was related to an eight-day hearing as seven churches challenge the health orders which have had churches shut down or under restricted capacities for much of the last 14 months. These fines will be included in next week’s report.
Many Winnipeg communities are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. (Screenshot: Government of Manitoba)
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More than a dozen communities are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Those living or working in specified jobs in River East South, St. Vital North and Seven Oaks East 18-years-old or older are now eligible for the shot.
As of Tuesday morning, eligible geographic-based communities include:
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority – Inkster West, Fort Garry South, Seven Oaks West, Downtown East, Point Douglas South, Inkster East, Point Douglas North and Downtown West
Prairie Mountain Health – Brandon East End and Brandon Downtown
Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority – Powerview-Pine Falls
No outbreaks or possible public exposures to COVID-19 in the Flin Flon district have been announced by provincial health officials, nor have any variant of concern COVID-19 cases. Elsewhere in northern Manitoba, two cases were discovered in Cross Lake/Pimicikamak, while another case was found in the remote Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/Gods River/Gods Lake district. There are currently 426 COVID-19 cases listed as active in northern Manitoba. While things are slowing down on the case front in the north, things are picking up in Winnipeg, where 212 of the 290 net new cases reported in Manitoba May 4 were found. One person died in the city, a man in his 40s whose death is considered linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern.