Page 2 - Marcel Colomb News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

At least 10 northern Manitoba First Nations are under lockdowns or travel restrictions amid the grow...

Cases of COVID-19 are spreading quickly in at least half of all First Nations in Manitoba, with at least three chiefs considering declaring states of emergency for their communities, officials say.

COVID-19 case rates jumped in Manitoba Wednesday, with 400 more people testing positive - but as of Dec. 22, no one in the Flin Flon districts in Manitoba or Saskatchewan has an active case.

The new, updated data shows the NHR's lowest active case total in almost nine months - the last time northern Manitoba had this few active COVID-19 cases was Oct. 27, 2020, when the province also had 55 active cases. Within weeks, the region had ballooned to more than 1,700 active cases. Before the update, The Pas/OCN/Kelsey had the most COVID-19 cases of any northern district, with 86 active cases. While the district still has the most cases in the north, the new accurate case details show 24 people in the district currently have the disease. Another 13 people have active COVID-19 cases in...

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 ...