COVID-19 AT A GLANCE

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This article was published 29/05/2020 (1962 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Cases:

Manitoba

Confirmed: 294

Resolved: 273

Deaths: 7

Active: 14

Canada

Confirmed: 88,504

Resolved: 46,844

Deaths: 6,874 deaths

The latest from Manitoba:

● Two new cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Manitoba, provincial health officials report. The two new cases are men in their 20s, caseload demographics show. The total number of lab-confirmed positive and probable positive cases in Manitoba is 294. No Manitoban is hospitalized. As of Wednesday, an additional 725 laboratory tests were performed. This brings the total number of tests performed since early February to 41,191.

The latest from elsewhere:

● Ottawa and the Canadian Armed Forces have started looking for an exit strategy amid talks with Quebec about the continued provision of military personnel to long-term care homes hit hard by COVID-19. Quebec Premier Francois Legault asked the federal government this week to keep hundreds of Armed Forces members in about two dozen long-term care facilities until September while the province looks for civilian support workers to replace them. The troops have been assisting in Quebec since April following an earlier request by Legault as outbreaks of COVID-19 ripped through some nursing homes. Military members were also deployed to a few long-term care facilities in Ontario.

● Representatives from Canada’s oilpatch say they don’t know of a single energy company that has yet benefited from any of Ottawa’s COVID-19-inspired loan programs. Several company owners and industry advocates painted a grim picture of the state of the energy sector at a virtual hearing of the House of Commons finance committee Thursday. Peter Kiss, the president of Morgan Construction and Environmental Ltd., says he has laid off 80 per cent of his staff, watched his revenue crash 87 per cent and still considers his company one of the lucky ones because some money is coming in. Tristan Goodman, president of the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada, says some of the loan programs promised from Ottawa have the right intention but the money is still not flowing, and qualifying is unnecessarily complicated.

● The threat of a growing COVID-19 outbreak in northern New Brunswick forced the adjournment of the provincial legislature Thursday and delayed by a week the planned loosening of some restrictions in the province’s recovery plan. The moves came a day after officials confirmed a health-care worker who travelled outside New Brunswick had failed to self-isolate upon their return and subsequently infected other people in the Campbellton area. Health officials announced three additional cases in the region on Thursday, bringing the total of cases in the cluster to six, including the health-care worker at the Campbellton Regional Hospital. One of the new cases also works in health care.

Quote:

“It is a stop-gap measure that is there to help out because our Armed Forces have the fundamental role of serving Canada and protecting Canadians.”

— Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding soldiers being deployed to long-term care homes