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“We definitely have a lot of cases within our northern population in certain areas,” Atwal said. There are now more than 1,500 active cases in the north, including more than 500 in the Island Lake health district. The Canadian military is sending personnel to Garden Hill First Nation on Thursday to support the running of the emergency operations centre, set up an isolation area and provide ground transportation, Global News reported. About 73 per cent of active COVID-19 cases were among First Nations people as of Jan. 19 according to the Manitoba First Nations COVID-19 Pandemic Respons...

Posted: Jan 17, 2021 7:31 AM CT | Last Updated: January 17 There are 132 active cases of COVID-19 in Lynn Lake as of Saturday. A little over a week ago, there were only 24 active cases in the town of about 500.(Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press) A small town in northern Manitoba is on high alert as more people test positive for COVID-19 and the province declares an outbreak at the local hospital. As of Saturday, there are 132 known active cases of COVID-19 in the community, according to a daily COVID-19 bulletin issued by the town of just under 500 people, located about 815 kilometres...

Winnipeg Free Press Save to Read Later As Manitoba ponders loosening its pandemic restrictions, public health officials are watching infection rates surge in the North. As Manitoba ponders loosening its pandemic restrictions, public health officials are watching infection rates surge in the North. Northern Manitoba has one of the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases linked to recent holiday season gatherings, second only to Winnipeg, provincial data show. Test positivity rates in the region have spiked, and boasted nearly half of the province's total daily new case count Friday (84 of 191)...

The news came on a day when the Northern Health Region (NHR) led the province in new cases once again, reporting 84 of Manitoba's 191 new COVID-19 cases reported Jan. 15. Provincial five-day test positivity rates are hovering around 10 per cent, but are decidedly lower in Winnipeg, where 7.2 per cent of tests in the last five days have come up positive. A person has died in the NHR from COVID-19, listed by the provincial government as a man in his 70s from the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/O-Pipon-Na-Piwin/Granville Lake district. The region with the most new cases reported Friday w...

The fastest growth in overall cases has been found in the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/O-Pipon-Na-Piwin/Granville Lake district, where a whopping 57 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in provincial data Jan. 14, bringing the region up to 144 active cases. Help may soon be on the way for the remote community, about 240 kilometres almost due north of Flin Flon. The Town of Lynn Lake announced Jan. 13 that members of Manitoba Task Force Four, a provincial emergency response team from the Manitoba Office of the Fire Commissioner, would be arriving in town later this week. The crew will...