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The province is ramping up its efforts in issuing fines and warnings to people violating public health orders. Here s a breakdown of the fines:
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- 97 warnings and 60 tickets iwere issued for the week of May 3 to 9:
- 50 tickets worth $1,296 each were issued to people for various offences
- Nine tickets worth $298 each were issued to people who refused to wear a mask indoors in public places and
- One ticket was issued to a business for $5,000
Gatherings in private residences made up the bulk of the tickets issued as 47 were handed out for a total of $60,912 in fines. Three tickets totalling just under $4,000 were handed out to people failing to self isolate.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.5 per cent provincially and 12.6 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on May 8, 2021, 488 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, three cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 485 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 41,425.
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On October 30 the Government of Manitoba announced
province-wide changes to its #RestartMB Pandemic Response System in
response to the surge of confirmed COVID-19 cases and the
increasing test positivity rate.
Notably, such changes moved the Winnipeg Metro Region into the
critical (red) level, and the Southern Health-Santé Sud,
Prairie Mountain Health and Interlake-Eastern Health regions into
the restricted (orange) level. On November 12, all health regions
across Manitoba moved to the critical (red) level, and have since
remained at this level.
Effective November 20, 2020, the province implemented stricter