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Sioux Valley Dakota Nation borders the heavily travelled Trans-Canada Highway in western Manitoba, yet the community held back waves of COVID-19 cases that swept the area last year. In the opposite corner of the province, Shamattawa First Nation, a remote fly-in community in northeastern Manitoba, had an outbreak so severe that the Canadian military was flown in to help after one-third of the 1,500 residents were infected. MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS COVID-19 checkstops on the roads into Peguis FN only allowing residents and essential workers in. How the two communities, situated 90...

Local opposition to the Manitoba government’s recent decision to keep health restrictions unchanged for northern Manitoba has begun.

Forty-one northers were in hospital due to COVID-19 on Wednesday, 37 of them with active infections and four of them in intensive care. The NRHA has now had 3,606 total cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Province-wide, there are 281 people in hospital due to the virus, 127 of whose cases are still considered active. Thirty-six of them are in intensive care, including 12 who are no longer considered infectious. Four more deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in Manitoba Jan. 27, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 813. The provincial five-day test positivity rate on Wedn...

Photograph By Thompson Citizen files Northern Manitoba posted a triple-digit increase in new COVID-19 cases Jan. 21, accounting for more than half of all the new cases in the province and more than Winnipeg and the other three health regions combined. 105 of 198 new cases of the virus announced by the province on Thursday were in the north, with the Island Lake health district seeing 43 new cases, the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/South Indian Lake/Leaf Rapids health district 16 and the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/God’s River/God’s Lake health district 10 new infect...

Seventy new COVID-19 cases in northern Manitoba were announced by the province Jan. 20, bringing the region past 1,500 active cases.