Winnipeg Free Press
WITH increased restrictions, come more tickets.
In the past week, Manitoba public health enforcers doled out more than 100 tickets the most of any week since the COVID-19 pandemic began though some widely publicized gatherings reportedly escaped the arm of the law.
A total of 102 tickets and 130 warnings were issued May 17-23, largely in relation to gatherings at private residences, the province said in a news release Wednesday. The last time officials handed out triple-digit tickets was the week of Nov. 23, 2020.
Provincial officials also dispensed an additional 22 tickets each carrying a $1,296 price tag to attendees of past anti-pandemic restrictions rallies in Winnipeg.
Manitoba COVID enforcement officers wrote a record 102 tickets this past week, breaking the previous mark of 100 tickets set in the last week of November.