COVID-19 outbreak declared at Riverview Health Centre winnipegfreepress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from winnipegfreepress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
To most of us, they are anonymous numbers in a grim and ongoing count.
But each one represents one of the more than 900 Manitoba lives lost over the past year to COVID-19.
Many have gone without a published obituary marking their loss. Without family and friends able to gather to grieve at a funeral and, later, celebrate their memories.
Manitoba’s first positive case was announced March 12, followed by three more the next day. The first COVID-19 hospital admission occurred March 17, and the province declared a state of emergency on March 20. We’re in this together and we’re grieving together, Mayor Brian Bowman said then. Our deepest condolences to the friends and family of the deceased.
Faces of the pandemic: A look at the lives of 10 Manitobans lost to COVID-19 winnipegfreepress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from winnipegfreepress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Public health has confirmed that there is a second positive case of COVID-19 in the Snow Lake area and it is linked to the first case. The second confirmed case is a Hudbay employee who was not symptomatic while at work and both individuals are currently self-isolating, reads an Oct. 22 statement from Hudbay and the Town of Snow Lake. Two new cases each have been reported in the The Pas/OCN/Kelsey health district, with another two cases found in the Thompson/Mystery Lake district and another two cases marked as unknown district. Thompson has now reported 25 cases of COVID-19 - 12 of those cases are still active, while the remaining 13 are now considered recovered. There are currently 45 active cases of COVID-19 in northern Manitoba.
Brandon Sun By: Kyle Darbyson
Volunteers hand out boxes of fish outside of Dakota Ojibway Child & Family Services on Wednesday morning as part of a broader effort to rescue food that cannot be sent to international markets because of COVID-19. (Kyle Darbyson/The Brandon Sun)
Members of Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council spent most of Wednesday handing out free packages of filleted pike, pickerel and whitefish to Indigenous families in Westman, as part of a broader initiative that was started by Fisher River Cree Nation.
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Members of Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council spent most of Wednesday handing out free packages of filleted pike, pickerel and whitefish to Indigenous families in Westman, as part of a broader initiative that was started by Fisher River Cree Nation.