WINNIPEG – Officials with Manitoba Health say they’re preparing for a major ramp up of their COVID-19 vaccination campaign, with older members of the general public about to become eligible to get the jab this coming week. So far a total of more than 58,900 doses have been administered. Vaccine Task Force Medical Lead Dr.…
3 Deaths, 95 Cases
WINNIPEG – The province is reporting three deaths today from COVID-19, all of them in Winnipeg. There are 95 new cases of the virus, including 31 in Winnipeg and 59 in the north. 1,207 cases are active, 29,240 people have recovered, for a total of 31,329 cases so far. 206 Manitobans are in hospital right…
3 More Cases Of Variant
WINNIPEG – Another three cases of the UK variant have been found in Manitoba. The B117 version of COVID-19 is definitely more transmissible and possibly more deadly. That brings the total number of confirmed cases of this variant to four. Dr. Jazz Atwal says people shouldn’t be alarmed as contact tracing has been aggressive and…
2 Deaths, 92 Cases
WINNIPEG – The province is reporting two deaths today from COVID-19, both of them in Winnipeg. There are 92 new cases of the virus, including 35 in Winnipeg and 50 in the north. There are also three more cases of the UK variant for a total of four now. 1,169 cases are active, 29,187 people…
Longtime Stony Inmate Dies
WINNIPEG – Correctional Service Canada says a Stony Mountain inmate serving a more than 70-year sentence for rape and other crimes is dead after a brief illness. The CSC says Bruce Allan Kaiser died this week of natural causes, although his death remains under investigation by a coroner. The federal agency says the police were…
Crash Kills 3 Students
WINNIPEG – Three international students have died in a head-on crash near Arborg. RCMP say the three men were driving south on Highway 7 at about 6:20 on Thursday morning. The three, all from Bangladesh, were going to school at the University of Manitoba. The northbound vehicle was driven by a 53 year old woman…
Vaccine Deal Criticized
WINNIPEG – Premier Brian Pallister’s plan for Manitoba to buy its own supply of COVID-19 vaccine is being called a fantasy. A University of Ottawa professor says Providence Therapeutics is too far behind to ever catch up to current vaccines that are already approved. Amir Attaran says the prospect of the province receiving the vaccine…
Leaders React To Handgun Ban
WINNIPEG – Both Winnipeg’s mayor and Manitoba’s premier say they’d prefer to have a different level of government handle a handgun ban than what the feds are proposing. Under the draft bill, the federal government would give municipalities, such as the city of Winnipeg, authority to make their own bylaws that would ban the firearms.…
2 Deaths, 139 Cases
WINNIPEG – The province is reporting two deaths today from COVID-19, both of them in Winnipeg. There are 139 new cases of the virus, including 52 in Winnipeg and 75 in the north. 1,153 cases are active, 29,114 people have recovered, for a total of 31,145 cases so far. 224 Manitobans are in hospital right…
Chiefs Sound Alarm Bells
WINNIPEG – First Nations leaders are questioning the pace of the province’s Moderna vaccine rollout, a week after a second batch of doses arrived in Manitoba. Some Chiefs among the 63 First Nations communities in the province say they’re disappointed with the logistics of getting the vaccine out, amid spikes of COVID-19 cases in their…