Two rural school outbreaks as Manitoba case counts climb
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Manitoba has recorded its highest daily COVID-19 case count in more than three months.
There were 132 new cases announced Thursday.
The province has flagged 329 new cases since Monday. Of those, 86 were in Southern Health, 79 in Winnipeg, 68 in Northern Health, 67 in Prairie Mountain and 29 in Interlake-Eastern.
More than 70 per cent of the new cases detected Thursday are among unvaccinated people, the province said, further announcing two rural school outbreaks.
Miniota School has been moved to remote learning until Oct. 16, and Alonsa School has been put under the restricted orange level of the the province’s pandemic response system.
Two more Manitobans have died of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus: a man in his 60s and a man who was over 100, both from Winnipeg.
The last time the province recorded a triple-digit daily case count was in August, and the daily count hasn’t been well above 100 since June. Public health officials have acknowledged Manitoba is at the beginning of a fourth wave, as case counts and hospitalization rates creep up.
“We’re in a trajectory right now that could take us to a place where we’ll see quite a significant amount of strain on our health-care system unless we change it,” chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin said Monday.
The number of COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated Manitobans continues to be highest in southern Manitoba.
In Southern Health, 75 per cent of new cases were among unvaccinated people; in the North, that number aligned with the provincial total of 70 per cent; whereas in Winnipeg, it dipped lower, showing 67 per cent of new cases were among unvaccinated residents.
Provincial enforcement officers handed out more than $67,000 in fines to individuals and businesses accused of breaking public health rules last week.
Five businesses in Steinbach, three in Winnipeg, and one each in Virden and Marquette were hit with fines for violations of public health orders.
Nineteen tickets were issued between Sept. 27 and Oct. 3, according to provincial enforcement data released Thursday.
Two agriculture supply stores, three fitness centres and Real Canadian Superstore in Steinbach were among those fined.