At the advice of the chief provincial public health officer, Manitoba is suspending classroom learning for kindergarten to Grade 12 students indefinitely for this school year to help ‘flatten the curve’ and reduce the impact of COVID-19 throughout the province.

The Research Lead with Agri-Food Economic Systems says the surge in consumer demand at the grocery store as the result of COVID-19 has created a difficult to manage situation.

Public health officials advise 24 additional cases of COVID-19 have been identified as of 9:30am on March 30, bringing the total number of lab-confirmed positive and probable positive cases in Manitoba to 96 at this time.