The north’s new cases on Tuesday included 11 from the Cross Lake/Pimicikamak health district, where members of the Canadian Armed Forces are scheduled to arrive this week to assist Pimicikamak Cree Nation (PCN) with conducting wellness checks, establishing and running alternative isolation sites where people can safely self-isolate, and contributing to public awareness about public health rules, according to PCN Chief David Monias. The soldiers will be in the community for up to two weeks, with assessments regarding whether their presence is still needed to be conducted on the seventh and 12th days, CBC reported. A team of 30 Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs ambassadors will also be going to PCN to staff checkpoints, make personal protective equipment kits and food hampers, perform wellness checks and deliver mail, James Favel told CBC.
Seventy-five new cases of COVID-19 were announced in Manitoba Feb. 9, including 16 in the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA). Four previously reported cases were removed due to a data . . .
One case was also announced in the Nelson House/Nisicihawayasihk health district. Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) Chief Marcel Moody said in a Facebook update that the case was the second from the district involving someone actually living on-reserve and that a stay-at-home order is in effect with an 11 p.m to 7 a.m. curfew. “The restrictions we have put in place have kept our community safe so far,” Moody wrote. “The number of cases has been increasing all around us. Our friends and relatives in other communities have been hard hit by COVID-19.” Across the province, 133 new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Thursday, though one previous case was removed due to a data correction, leaving the net increase in cases at 132. Winnipeg had the next highest regional total behind the north with 29 new cases.
Forty-one northers were in hospital due to COVID-19 on Wednesday, 37 of them with active infections and four of them in intensive care. The NRHA has now had 3,606 total cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Province-wide, there are 281 people in hospital due to the virus, 127 of whose cases are still considered active. Thirty-six of them are in intensive care, including 12 who are no longer considered infectious. Four more deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in Manitoba Jan. 27, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 813. The provincial five-day test positivity rate on Wednesday was 9.6 per cent. Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson and Dr. Joss Reimer, medical officer of health with Manitoba Health and Seniors Care and medical lead on the vaccine implementation task force, announced further priority groups for vaccinations at a news conference on Wednesday. The second stage includes more health care workers, residents of high and moderate-risk c
“That is an area where we’re seeing a lot of transmission,” said chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin at a press conference on Monday. “There’s a lot of work from all levels to address that through that public health approach. We’re really concerned with the level of transmission that’s happening right now. Northern health districts with single-digit increases since Sunday included Cross Lake/Pimicikamak, Gillam/Fox Lake, The Pas/Opaskwyak Cree Nation/Kelsey, Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/God’s River/God’s Lake, Grand Rapids/Misipawistik/Easterville/Chemawawin/Moose Lake, Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskewyak/Split Lake and Thompson/Mystery Lake. With 98 active cases and 474 since the pandemic began, the Thompson/Mystery Lake health district has now had the second-most total cases of any health district in the north.