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A year of new words, worries, and rules began one year ago when Manitoba had its first confirmed COVID-19 case on March 12, 2020. In the midst of closures and loss, there was also plenty of good on display.
The first cases of the novel coronavirus were in Wuhan, China where the World Health Organization learnt of the viral pneumonia in December. The world was watching but it would be months before Manitoba saw a case.
January 2020
Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba s Chief Public Health Officer, held his first COVID-19 press conference on January 23, 2020, in a meeting room. He was relatively unknown at the time, especially to the general public. Sitting in front of a room of reporters, Roussin did not have much information to go on, as the virus was still new to the world.
The business Pallister named is planning to appeal the fine.
However, the public health department has navigated the tension between citizens rights to know and an individual s right to privacy deftly, Driedger said.
Health officials owned up to their mistakes, such as revealing the school name, grade, classroom and bus route of the first student to contract COVID-19, Driedger said. Facing pushback, the province reneged on its promise to reveal such detailed information of student infections.
The first known positive COVID-19 case in Manitoba s school system was a student at Churchill High School in Winnipeg. Health officials revealed too much information about that case, says one expert, but made changes to avoid that in later cases.(Holly Caruk/CBC)