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Of the province's 155 new cases, 27 were located in the Northern Health Region. Another 26 recoveries were reported in the region and one case previously reported within the NHR was moved, keeping the region at 897 active cases. Districts with the highest case numbers remain the Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake district (282 active cases), the Island Lake district (234 active cases) and the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/Gods River/Gods Lake district (160 active cases, including 16 new cases Tuesday). There are 86 cases still active in The Pas/OCN/Kelsey, with another ...

Manitoba health officials gave the province an early Christmas gift of sorts Dec. 21 - the lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in almost two months. The province reported 166 net new cases of COVID-19 on the shortest day of the year, including 25 cases within the Northern Health Region. Four deaths were reported Monday due to COVID-19, each from southern Manitoba communities. article continues below Trending Stories Within the district of Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon, only two cases of COVID-19 remain active. According to the most recent provincial health data, 32 peop...

Four new deaths related to the virus were announced Dec. 21, bringing the total number of COVID deaths in Manitoba to 572. The five-day test positivity rate of 11.5 per cent was also the lowest it has been since Remembrance Day, when it was 11 per cent. There were 25 new cases of the virus in the province’s north, which has had 1,850 total cases since the pandemic began. There are 897 active cases in the region as of Monday, including 282 in the Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake health district, 233 in the Island Lake health district, 144 in the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Mant...

The regions with the highest amount of growth were the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/Gods River/Gods Lake and the Island Lake district. In the Bunibonibee district, 23 more active cases were reported Thursday, bringing the district up to 102 active cases. Island Lake - where most cases are tied to the community of Red Sucker Lake - now has 193 active cases and counting, reporting 20 new cases and a net increase of 14 cases. The district with the most cases continues to be the Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake district, where cases are staying in the mid-200s. The distri...

The Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA) learned Dec. 17 of individuals from the medical/surgical/pediatric unit at Thompson General Hospital who had tested positive for COVID-19, said an NRHA spokesperson. Public health declared an outbreak in that unit and immediately began contact tracing and management of the cases. “As a precaution, all patients on the unit will be tested,” the spokesperson said. The unit is complying with all restrictions and guidelines in place under the red/critical level of the provincial Pandemic Response System. The Pandemic Response System mandates in...