To most of us, they are anonymous numbers in a grim and ongoing count.
But each one represents one of the more than 900 Manitoba lives lost over the past year to COVID-19.
Many have gone without a published obituary marking their loss. Without family and friends able to gather to grieve at a funeral and, later, celebrate their memories.
Manitoba’s first positive case was announced March 12, followed by three more the next day. The first COVID-19 hospital admission occurred March 17, and the province declared a state of emergency on March 20. We’re in this together and we’re grieving together, Mayor Brian Bowman said then. Our deepest condolences to the friends and family of the deceased.
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Lynn Stevenson, external reviewer, speaks virtually at a press conference about the results of the review of the deadly COVID-19 outbreak at Maples Care Home. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
The daughter of a senior who died in a COVID-19 outbreak at the Maples care home, in which 56 lives were lost, said she doesn t trust the review that probed the crisis.
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The daughter of a senior who died in a COVID-19 outbreak at the Maples care home, in which 56 lives were lost, said she doesn t trust the review that probed the crisis.