After 71 years, a yearly tradition continued with the U.S. Army’s 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, and 25th Infantry Division all joining forces on December 4 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, to wrap presents to ship to the Holy Family Home in Japan. Soldiers write Christmas cards to send to orphans in Japan. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Thomas Calvert)
The 25th Infantry Division shared photos of soldiers taking part in the annual tradition, tweeting, “It’s a long standing tradition, and it just goes to show that it doesn’t matter what nation you’re from, in the bigger picture, people help people.”
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
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2020 novel coronavirus bulletin – 291
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 12/20/2020 at 12:37 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 12.2 per cent provincially and 11.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on December 12, 2020, 229 new cases of the virus have been identified, which brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 22,859.
Public health officials advise 13 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today, including:
a female in her 50s from the Northern health region;
a female in her 80s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to an outbreak at the Grandview Personal Care Home in Grandview;
a male in his 90s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region,
By Matthew Dekker
Dec 20, 2020 6:54 PM
Public health officials advise 13 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today, including:
• a female in her 50s from the Northern health region;
• a female in her 80s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to an outbreak at the Grandview Personal Care Home in Grandview;
• a male in his 90s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region,
• a male in his 30s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to an outbreak at St. Amant;
• a female in her 40s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to an outbreak at Holy Family Home;
WINNIPEG Thirteen more Manitobans have died from COVID-19, including a man in his 30s from the Winnipeg health region. Announced in the province s daily COVID-19 bulletin on Saturday, 11 of the deaths are from Winnipeg. The 30-year-old Winnipeg man who passed from the virus is linked to an outbreak at St. Amant. Two of the deaths, a man in his 70s and a woman in her 90s, are linked to an outbreak at the Charleswood Care Centre. A Winnipeg woman linked to an outbreak at Holy Family Home also died from the virus. One death, a woman in her 80s, is linked to an outbreak at the GA3 unit at Health Sciences Centre.