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Hard-hit storefronts in Manitoba are facing over $180,000 in coronavirus-related debt, according to CFIB’s latest estimates. ‘And that’s just what they’ve incurred because of and during the pandemic,’ said Jonathan Alward, Prairies director for CFIB.
Manitoba is among four provinces that aren’t keeping up with the economic damage being caused by the growing third wave of COVID-19, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business said Thursday.
Manitoba is among four provinces that aren’t keeping up with the economic damage being caused by the growing third wave of COVID-19, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business said Thursday.
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Province urged to take a page from Saskatchewan s playbook Save to Read Later
The province just west of Manitoba, with equivalent if not higher COVID-19 case counts per capita, has come up with a detailed reopening roadmap for businesses and residents.
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The province just west of Manitoba, with equivalent if not higher COVID-19 case counts per capita, has come up with a detailed reopening roadmap for businesses and residents.
Saskatchewan is using a three-pronged approach that hinges on vaccination levels for different age groups, which would allow that province to lift public-health restrictions using a targeted timeline this summer.
OTTAWA They’re called rapid tests, but Manitoba appears in no hurry to use them.
At least 94 per cent of rapid tests Ottawa has sent to the province remain in a stockpile, while just 1.26 per cent of all rapid tests in Manitoba had actually been used as of this past Friday, according to new federal data, as well as provincial figures obtained Monday by the Free Press.
Manitoba is the only province that can’t seem to tell Ottawa how many of the federal tests it has distributed have actually been used.
Rapid tests are used to detect the coronavirus in as little as 15 minutes, but they’re nowhere near as sensitive as the regular PCR tests that are mostly done in large laboratories. They aren’t meant to definitively say whether someone has COVID-19; instead, they tend to detect people who don t yet have symptoms but carry high viral loads, which are often the ones who go on to infect multiple people.
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Multiple barriers to development continue to affect Winnipeg despite several business sectors experiencing an uptick during the pandemic.
Barriers include a need for serviced industrial land, a pro-business environment, more red tape reduction and increased transparency, Dayna Spiring, president and CEO of Economic Development Winnipeg (EDW) said in a presentation to the Cityâs Innovation and Economic Development Committee on Monday.
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âBusinesses want certainty,â she said. âThey want to understand the process and the timelines involved to get the approvals they need. It helps them make informed decisions and points them to where they want to invest.â
WINNIPEG Air quality solutions like air purifiers and ventilation systems, as well as better-fitted masks, should be talked about more as a way to decrease the risk of COVID-19, according to three recent studies which indicate the virus is largely transmitted through the air. University of Manitoba medical microbiology professor Kevin Coombs told CTV News it is a little more complicated than that. The best evidence that we have is that the coronavirus SARS-COV-2 can be spread both by large droplets and also by the fine aerosols that remain suspended in the air. It is not a case of one or the other, it s both.