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The Flin Flon health district is back to three active cases of COVID-19, while cases in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan remain at high levels.
While Saskatchewan's far north east health zone was hit hard with new COVID-19 cases, reporting 37 new cases of the disease, only two new COVID-19 cases were reported in far north east 2, the health zone that includes Creighton, Denare Beach and other Saskatchewan communities. The zone is now sitting at 54 active cases of COVID-19 - more exact information about case locations has not been provided by provincial health officials. Throughout the rest of northern Manitoba, the region with the most new COVID-19 cases was the Thompson/Mystery Lake district - 14 new cases were reported in the dis...
Fewer Manitobans are testing positive for COVID-19 and cases in the Flin Flon district continue to drop, but bad COVID-19 news has come from Saskatchewan.
The district that saw the most new cases was the Thompson/Mystery Lake district, where 35 new cases were reported overnight. Accounting for recoveries, the district has jumped from 89 active cases Tuesday to 106 active cases Wednesday. Since the pandemic began, 594 people in the Thompson district have tested positive. The north remains Manitoba's COVID-19 hotspot, due in large part to persisting outbreaks in the Island Lake and Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake district. The Island Lake district now has 803 cases of COVID-19 according to provincial data, while the Shamattawa d...
New cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba stayed in the double digits Wednesday, levels of active cases in the north continue to rise and the Flin Flon health district is seeing its own numbers drop.