Up until last week there had only been 10 cases of the virus in Pukatawagan, which has about 3,000 residents, but recently there have ben 10 or 20 new cases a day, said Bighetty, who attributed the rapid rise to people socializing with each other. “They don’t seem to understand the seriousness of the COVID,” she said. “I still see a lot of people roaming about, thinking of nothing but trying to mingle.” Some of that may be because of spring weather, some due to COVID fatigue after almost a year of the pandemic and some a result of complacency among some of the 200 or so people who have received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
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The Flin Flon district saw the most cases of any district in the NHR aside from the Cross Lake/Pimicikamak district, where 28 new cases were found. The origins and exact location of the Flin Flon district cases - aside from them being somewhere in Flin Flon, Snow Lake, Cranberry Portage or Sherridon - are unknown. At least one case has been directly linked to a Flin Flon school. Ruth Betts Community School announced March 5 that at least one person at the school had tested positive earlier in the week and was at the school March 2 during a period when they may have been infectious. The person was in the Wolf cohort of the school, which consists of some of the school s Grade 3, 4 and 5 students. A letter was sent out to parents and the public on the school s official Facebook account March 5.
Northern Manitoba continued to punch above its weight in a category no one wants it to March 4, accounting for more than half of the 51 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the province. The . . .
The long, slow ebb of Manitoba’s second wave is continuing, with the province reporting its lowest one-day case increase since October on Monday. Not every community, particularly in the north, has been so lucky.