Anyone age 12 and up who lives or works in the NHR can receive a first dose of vaccine at the Flin Flon site - youth ages 12-17 can only receive Pfizer-BioNTech doses, as the Moderna vaccine has not yet been approved for use in people under age 18. Second doses will also be available for people who qualify. Under current provincial eligibility rules, anyone who received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine before March 29 (including all Indigenous people 12 years old and older) and people who have one of a list of health conditions or take certain medications can book appointments for second doses. A full list of qualifying medications and health conditions can be found on the provincial government website.
252 of the new cases were in Winnipeg, with 50 in the southern health region, 42 in the Prairie Mountain region, 40 in the Interlake-Eastern region and 18 in the north. The Cross Lake/Pimicikamak health district had six new cases since Tuesday, while three other northern districts, including Island Lake and Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation (South Indian Lake)/Granville, had three new cases each, according to the provincial government website. Across the province, there are 293 people in hospital due to COVID, including 231 with active infections. Sixty-one of those with active infections are in intensive care as well as 19 people who are no longer considered infectious.
Three more deaths from the virus, two of them linked to the B.1.1.7 variant of concern, were also reported, making the total number of Manitobans who have died from COVID-19 1,019. The Grand Rapids/Misipawistik/Mosakahiken/Moose Lake/Easterville/Chemawawin health district had the nighest number of new cases in the north, with 11, while there were five new cases in the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry/Sherridon district and four each in the Cross Lake/Pimicikamak and Pukatawagan/Mathias Colomb health districts, according to the provincial government website. Three active cases listed in the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/Leaf Rapids/O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation (South Indian Lake)/Granville on the website on May 19 have been removed and there are no active cases in the district listed anymore. Thompson/Mystery Lake had two new cases and has a total of four active cases.
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The NHR now has 190 active cases of COVID-19, by far the lowest of any of Manitoba s five health regions - the second-lowest health region, the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority, now has 265 active cases as of May 14. The NHR s 190 active cases is the lowest number of active cases seen in northern Manitoba since November 2020, when the NHR cleared 200 active cases in the midst of the second wave of COVID-19. Out of those northern cases, only four districts within the NHR have double-digit numbers of COVID-19 cases. One of those is the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon district, which has 10 active COVID-19 cases, including two new cases reported Friday. The other districts that have reported high numbers of active COVID-19 cases include the Island Lake district (88 cases active), the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/Gods River/Gods Lake district (27 cases active) and the Cross Lake/Pimicikamak district (25 active cases). Combined, these four districts