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One new death was reported since yesterday, the 960th person to die as a result of the virus since the pandemic began. In the north, 25 new cases were reported, including nine from the Grand Rapids/Misipawistik/Mosakahiken/Moose Lake/Easterville/Chemawawin health district, seven from the Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake district, and five from the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/God’s River/God’s Lake district. There are 132 Manitobans in hospital as a result of COVID-19, including 66 with active cases, 18 of whom are in intensive care. There are also 15 people who are no longer considered infections who are still in intensive care.
News from schools around South Lakeland has always played a large part in the columns of The Westmorland Gazette. SHAKESPEARE: Pupils from Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, who were due to travel to America for a Shakespearian festival in 1994 In 1994, the newspaper reported that pupils from Queen Elizabeth School at Kirkby Lonsdale were setting off for America to compete in a Shakespearian festival in Washington. It was the school’s third trip to the American Secondary School Festival. The 15 third to sixth formers were taking a special gift to a sister school in the city - Sidwell Friends School. “We will be taking a copy of part of the Quaker Tapestry, which is to be housed in Kendal, to present to the school as a gift from the Friends in Kendal and Sedbergh,” said teacher Katie Doyle.
A COVID-19 outbreak has also been declared at the Flin Flon personal care home. The province said April 16 that there were 127 new cases of the virus in Manitoba and that the five-day test positivity rate was 5.1 per cent. Seventy-five of the new cases were in the Winnipeg region and 29 in the north. There were also 12 cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region, six in Prairie Mountain and five in the southern health region. Three more cases involving the B.1.1.7 variant have been identified in the Northern Regional Health Authority and the total is now six. There has also been one other case involving a variant of concern that has not been categorized.
May, June and July saw no confirmed new cases of the virus anywhere in Northern Manitoba. There was one in August and 14 in September, which saw multiple cases reported in the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA) on the same day for the first time, including seven family members testing positive in York Landing, in what might be considered the start of the north’s second wave of infections, or even the real beginning of the first. The number of northern infections increased more than tenfold in October, to 198 total cases, then continued rising – to 800 in November, 1,133 in December and 1,833 in January before dropping to 968 in February and 1,047 in March.