2020 novel coronavirus bulletin – 296
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 12/27/2020 at 12:45 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 12.1 per cent provincially and 12.5 per cent in Winnipeg. Between 9:30am on December 24 and 9:30am on December 27, 2020, 524 new cases of the virus have been identified, which brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 24,145.
Public health officials advise 28 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today for the period from Dec. 24 to 27 including:
a female in her 30s from the Winnipeg health region;
a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region;
a male in his 60s from the Northern health region;
By Ryan Young
Dec 27, 2020 6:42 PM
Public health officials advise 28 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today for the period from Dec. 24 to 27 including:
• a female in her 30s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 60s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a male in his 60s from the Northern health region;
• a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a male in his 60s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to an outbreak at Poseidon Care Centre;
• a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to an outbreak at Poseidon Care Centre;
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Manitoba public health officials announced Sunday 28 additional deaths due to COVID-19 over the Christmas holiday covering the period from Christmas Eve until Sunday. That brings the total of deaths in Manitoba since the start of the pandemic to 645, including 333 in the month of December and 576 since the beginning of November.
Over 500 new cases were identified from testing carried out since Christmas Eve. The province had not released numbers on Christmas Day or Boxing Day.
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Oxford House turns corner on COVID-19 outbreak By: Dylan Robertson
The chief of a northern First Nation that’s starting to bounce back from a COVID-19 outbreak says officials from outside the reserve took a few days to get a contact-tracing process underway as the virus began to spread.
The chief of a northern First Nation that’s starting to bounce back from a COVID-19 outbreak says officials from outside the reserve took a few days to get a contact-tracing process underway as the virus began to spread.
The experience of Bunibonibee Cree Nation, also called Oxford House, illustrates the strain First Nations officials face when outbreaks hit multiple reserves.
Courtesy of Drew Meyerowich
Throughout the year, students and graduates of the service academies work alongside one another. They understand the challenges and rigor of what it means to attend their respective institution and they also understand the call to serve.
But one particular week out of the year, those niceties are put on the back burner and the something else takes center stage. Alumni of these schools go on to dawn the uniform of the nation’s military, they might travel overseas, they may even have run-ins with their old classmates, but something that brings them together year after year is the Army-Navy game.