Provincial News Archives

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.4 per cent provincially and 11.5 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on January 6, 2021, 176 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, nine were removed due to data corrections making the net new total 167. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 25,541.

The Pas RCMP are asking the public for any information into the whereabouts of a local man who hasn’t been seen in several weeks, 54-year-old Barry Byrtus.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.7 per cent provincially and 11.5 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on January 5, 2020, 130 new cases of the virus have been identified, which brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 25,374.

The RBC Convention Centre super site opened in Winnipeg on January 4, 2020 and immunized 850 people. Since the vaccine arrived in Manitoba in December, a total of 4,292 people have been immunized against COVID-19.

A total of 279 warnings and 55 tickets were issued for the week of Dec. 28, 2020, to Jan. 3 including 49 $1,296 tickets to individuals for various offences and six tickets to individuals for failure to wear a mask in indoor public places.

Infrastructure Minister Ron Schuler, minister responsible for the Manitoba Emergency Measures Organization (EMO), announced that the Manitoba government is extending the provincewide state of emergency under the Emergency Measures Act to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 and protect Manitobans.

The RBC Convention Centre super site opened this morning. Thousands of appointments have been booked for Jan. 4 to 10 with second-dose appointments occurring Jan. 25 to 31. To date, about 4,500 first-dose appointments have been made and approximately 1,600 remain available.

The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.7 per cent provincially and 11.8 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on January 4, 2021, 118 new cases of the virus have been identified, which brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 25,244.

Several cases of the new COVID-19 variant have now been identified in Canada and the federal government has posted a travel ban on all flights arriving from the United Kingdom until Jan. 6.

Steinbach MLA and Education Minister Kelvin Goertzen, announced that the Manitoba Remote Learning Support Centre has officially launched with resources and staff available to help facilitate remote learning.