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Today, eligibility criteria to be immunized at a supersite or pop-up clinic have been expanded to include individuals aged 73 or older and First Nation people aged 53 or older. Appointments are currently available at all five supersites in Winnipeg, Brandon, Selkirk, Thompson and Morden.  Some appointments also remain available at pop-up sites that are taking place this month in locations across the province.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.4 per cent provincially and 3.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on March 17, 2021, 96 new cases of the virus have been identified.  However, three cases have been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 93 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 32,996.

With continued growth in assets and membership, Reg Penner, Chair of the Steinbach Credit Union (SCU) Board of Directors announced a member bonus of $10 million in cash at their virtual Annual General Meeting, which will be welcome news to members at a time when they are facing the financial realities of the pandemic.

A total of 44 warnings and 22 tickets were issued for the week of March 8 to 14 including 16 $1,296 tickets to individuals for various offences, four $298 tickets to individuals for failure to wear a mask in indoor public places, and two $5,150 tickets under the Federal Quarantine Act.

As the result of an ongoing investigation, Steinbach RCMP have arrested two individuals after seizing a large quantity of cannabis during a recent search of a residence located in the Rural Municipality of Tache.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.2 per cent provincially and 3.7 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on March 16, 2021, 111 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, one case has been removed due to data correction. This brings the net-new number of cases today to 110 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 32,903.

Manitoba’s Hydrologic Forecast Centre advises that spring run-off due to snowmelt has started in most of the southern Manitoba basins.

The Manitoba government released its kindergarten to Grade 12 strategy with a focus on putting students first, Education Minister Cliff Cullen announced, saying the Better Education Starts Today (BEST) strategy that will shift resources to the classroom while giving parents and guardians much more input, as it rebuilds Manitoba’s kindergarten to Grade 12 education system through the proposed putting students first bill.

Today, eligibility to be immunized at a super site or pop-up clinic is being expanded to include individuals aged 77 or older and First Nation people aged 57 or older.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 4.8 per cent provincially and 3.5 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on March 15, 2021, 50 new cases of the virus have been identified and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 32,793.