Brandon Sun By: FP News
THE BRANDON SUN
A screen shot of the province s new COVID-19 information dashboard for schools that was launched this week. (The Brandon Sun)
The Manitoba government has launched an online dashboard dedicated to COVID-19 cases in schools.
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The Manitoba government has launched an online dashboard dedicated to COVID-19 cases in schools.
It provides current information, including cases within the last 14 days and the total number since Sept. 1, 2020, the province said in a statement Thursday.
In the past 14 days, there have been 60 COVID-19 cases 49 students and 11 staff at 47 schools.
The dashboard also includes cases where students or staff may not have been infectious while at school. A map allows the public to see individual school case counts for the last 14 days by location.
Increasingly non-specific notices sent to parents after a COVID-19 case is identified in a classroom and the province’s halt in reporting those exposures are frustrating families who want to be in the know.
It’s been more than a month since Manitoba posted a school s letter to parents on its running tally of exposures online, yet there were 74 new cases among students and 11 among staff during the first two weeks of 2021.
Since the start of the school year, there have been 2,272 confirmed cases related to K-12 schools in the province. This is a once-in-a-century pandemic, during which parents are putting their trust in the government and sending their kids to school because it is a foundation of community, said Shraddha Pai, the lead and founder of the Canada COVID-19 School Tracker.