WINNIPEG While Manitoba continues to have hundreds of new COVID-19 cases each day, not everyone is finding out with a COVID test. Tuesday, the province said nearly half of those currently is hospital with COVID-19 didn’t get tested prior to arriving. Doug Langrell knows firsthand how important testing for COVID is. Doug lost his brother Dennis Langrell to COVID-19 last month, his brother died alone in his apartment at the age of 66. “He was badly congested, he had a bad cold so I said please go get yourself tested,” said Doug. He said his brother already had his first vaccination appointment, and decided not to get the COVID-19 test.
Posted: May 12, 2021 5:52 PM CT | Last Updated: May 12
Garry Ross was a proud Cree man with a deep connection to his language and the land, his family said. Ross died of COVID-19 on Dec. 2, 2020 at the age of 54.(Submitted by Rhonda Ross)
Rhonda Ross says her late husband Garry was a teacher not only by profession, but in life as well. He taught us about life, taught us about love, about opportunities. Everything is an opportunity. There s gifts around us all over the place, she said.
The couple shared many experiences over more than 30 years of marriage, including at the end. They were both diagnosed with COVID-19 during Manitoba s deadly second wave of cases.