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Northern Manitoba now has 490 listed active cases of COVID-19, the vast majority of which are in three districts - the Cross Lake/Pimicikamak, Island Lake and Pukatawagan/Mathias Colomb districts. These districts, as of March 12, have 143, 125 and 145 active cases respectively. The total of 490 active cases is a dramatic decrease from the 702 northern active cases announced March 11 - the change is due to what the province refers to as ongoing reviews of active case information , or clearing up delays in listing cases as recovered instead of active. Almost 400 cases across Manitoba were moved to the recovered column Friday. While almost every northern district saw a reduction in active cases due to the data correction, Pukatawagan did not, seeing 25 new cases added to provincial data and having a total of 145 active cases. The community s ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has led to Canadian Armed Forces and Red Cross personnel coming to the community to try to stop the disease from sp
The long, slow ebb of Manitoba’s second wave is continuing, with the province reporting its lowest one-day case increase since October on Monday. Not every community, particularly in the north, has been so lucky.