One new case was reported in the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon district, along with two recoveries from the disease. The main locale of recent northern cases has been The Pas/OCN/Kelsey, where 50 people - including six new people in the last day - have active cases of COVID-19. The remote Island Lake district has the most active cases of COVID-19 of any northern district at 69, but numbers there are declining. Case numbers in remote districts like Island Lake can also be inflated and outdated, due to delays in cases in the districts being marked by provincial officials as active and recovered .
The Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon health district is at 31 active cases of COVID-19, according to publicly available provincial government data. As of May 28, 261 people in northern Manitoba have active COVID-19 cases and 7,273 NHR residents have tested positive since the pandemic started. Manitoba is continuing to ship residents who are sick with COVID-19 or who require intensive care to Ontario for treatment as the province s health system nears capacity - there are 69 people with COVID-19 in Manitoba ICUs and another 26 Manitobans in out-of-province ICUs. A total of 312 people are in Manitoba hospitals due to COVID-19. No new outbreaks or public exposures have been reported in the NHR. For district-by-district case totals throughout the NHR, see below.
Another 295 new cases of COVID-19 were found across the province, including 25 new cases in the NHR and two new cases of COVID-19 in the Flin Flon/Snow Lake/Cranberry Portage/Sherridon district. The district now has 31 reported COVID-19 cases according to the provincial dashboard. No new outbreaks or public exposures were announced for the NHR May 27. Under the new health orders, most of the same restrictions that apply under previous provincial restrictions will stay exactly the same. Changes include restricting all outdoor gatherings, including those on public property, to household members only and requiring employers to have their employees work from home when possible.
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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