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“We definitely have a lot of cases within our northern population in certain areas,” Atwal said. There are now more than 1,500 active cases in the north, including more than 500 in the Island Lake health district. The Canadian military is sending personnel to Garden Hill First Nation on Thursday to support the running of the emergency operations centre, set up an isolation area and provide ground transportation, Global News reported. About 73 per cent of active COVID-19 cases were among First Nations people as of Jan. 19 according to the Manitoba First Nations COVID-19 Pandemic Response Co-ordination Team (PRCT), and First Nations people made up 45 per cent of all those hospitalized in the province due to the virus and 52 per cent of those in intensive care. There were 273 people in total in Manitoba hospitals due to the virus on Wednesday, 129 of whom had active cases. Thirty-six people were receiving intensive care as a result of their infections, though 11 of those patien
The notification came a day after the school posted a letter on its Facebook page advising that the school would be moving to remote learning for all students beginning Jan. 18 and ending Jan. 29. “To date, there have been no confirmed cases of transmission in the school but there has been an increase in the number of cases in the community,” said the letter. “We hope that this time together will allow families to take the necessary safeguards to protect themselves from COVID-19. We want to keep our students and community safe. Grade 7 and 8 students at the school had been learning remotely already since school restarted after the Christmas break on Jan. 4. Kindergarten to Grade 6 students will now be learning remotely as well, with the exception of those whose parents are essential workers.