Nancy from Split Lake. (Give the Word/Facebook)
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A prayer warrior from Split Lake is rejoicing as over 800 children in her community are receiving their very own Bibles. We had a lady from Arborg contact us and just said she had a friend named Nancy up in Split Lake who has a huge heart for the children in her community. Nancy and a couple of other women pray regularly for the kids there, says Ryan Rempel at Give the Word.
There are roughly 860 children in the community of Split Lake, Manitoba. They were just trying to find some way that they could reach out to them. The kids in that community are on lockdown and many of them are experiencing boredom and frustration.
Eight of the new northern cases announced Monday came from the Island Lake health district, while two were from Thompson and one each were from the Sayisi Dene/Tadoule/Barren Lands/Brochet/Northlands/Lac Brochet and The Pas/Opaskwayak/Kelsey health districts. There have now been 4,149 positive tests for COVID-19 in the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA) since the pandemic began. 718 of those cases are currently considered active. Public health was able to recategorize a number of cases previously listed as active as closed over the weekend, leading to the number of active cases in the province and in the north dropping by half. Close to half of all active cases in the province are still in the NRHA.
Over the weekend, 1,816 northern Manitobans were considered as active COVID-19 cases. On Monday, thanks to a jump in validating old COVID-19 cases as recovered, that number dropped to 718.
The district that saw the most new cases was the Thompson/Mystery Lake district, where 35 new cases were reported overnight. Accounting for recoveries, the district has jumped from 89 active cases Tuesday to 106 active cases Wednesday. Since the pandemic began, 594 people in the Thompson district have tested positive. The north remains Manitoba s COVID-19 hotspot, due in large part to persisting outbreaks in the Island Lake and Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake district. The Island Lake district now has 803 cases of COVID-19 according to provincial data, while the Shamattawa district is sitting at 367 active cases once again. Cases are not confined to the northeast portion of the region, however. Provincial numbers show 71 cases remain active in The Pas/OCN/Kelsey district. A full list of the most recent provincial COVID-19 data for the north can be found below.