None of the 36 new cases were found in the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon health district. The districts with the most new cases are the Island Lake district - which now has over 700 active cases of COVID-19 according to provincial statistics - and the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/Gods River/Gods Lake district. Both reported eight new cases. Six new cases are marked as unknown district , while the Gillam/Fox Lake district reported its own increase of six cases. New cases were also reported in the Cross Lake/Pimicikamak, Grand Rapids/Misipawistik/Moose Lake/Mosakahiken/Easterville/Chemawawin, Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/O-Pipon-Na-Piwin/Granville Lake and Thompson/Mystery Lake districts. More details on active cases per district within the NHR can be found below.
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Through the looking screen
Pandemic forces change in perspective for parents of young students in three Winnipeg families who can t be as concerned as they once were about their kids time online
Excessive screen-time was once the common enemy in the Milne-Karn, Parenteau and Blum-Payne households.
But the COVID-19 pandemic and related stay-at-home orders have given each family pause when considering each of their children’s relationships with computers.
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Kenny works on an abacus.
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Meet the Milne-Karns, the Parenteaus and the Blum-Paynes.
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Free Press is following these three families to document their experiences in the classroom, with remote learning and home-schooling amid the uncertainty and anxiety of the pandemic.
Long-term care vaccination drive less than halfway home Save to Read Later
Fewer than half of Winnipeg long-term care homes have been visited by a COVID-19 vaccination team in the past two weeks, while 20 facilities in the region remain under a declared outbreak.
Fewer than half of Winnipeg long-term care homes have been visited by a COVID-19 vaccination team in the past two weeks, while 20 facilities in the region remain under a declared outbreak.
On Friday, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority reported four homes in the city had a total of 35 active cases of COVID-19 among residents. Among staff, it reported 29 active cases, as of Jan. 22.
Throughout the north, cases continued to grow, with the highest number of new cases reported in the Thompson/Mystery Lake and Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/O-Pipon-Na-Piwin/Granville Lake districts. Seventeen new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the Thompson district, pushing active cases in the region up to 85, while 14 new cases in the Lynn Lake region pushed the region s active cases to 98, despite a big jump in the number of people recovering in the district. The majority of cases in northern Manitoba are still tied to outbreaks in remote Indigenous communities, but larger centres, including The Pas/OCN, Cross Lake, Thompson, Flin Flon and Norway House still have per-capita case loads well over the provincial average. Manitoba has a provincial average of 83 active cases per 100,000 people, but all five of those northern communities are at least three times higher than that mark. Four of them - Flin Flon being the sole exception - are more than four times higher than