As Manitoba celebrated the beginning of a new year, and reports of the new coronavirus were beginning to emerge from China, it was already beginning to look like 2020 could end up being a year like no other.
But it’s hard to wait exactly what the other year would be like.
Although it has not yet arrived in Manitoba, COVID-19 has slowly begun to make a difference in the province: retail establishments have run out of family items, schools have cancelled trips abroad and handshakes have become obsolete.
But it all came home when Manitoba’s first case was reported on March 12.
September 12 marks precisely six months since the announcement of this first case of the new coronavirus.
Since then, the provincial figures have been lower than the maximum: on Friday, we had 1393 instances and 16 deaths in total. Compared to provinces such as Quebec (64,463 instances and 5,774 deaths), Manitoba decreased on the COVID-19 radar.
But Manitoba still faces the same disorders as the rest of Canada and the world. Here’s a look at the last six months.
On 12 March, Manitoba’s director of public health, Dr. Brent Roussin, and chief nurse Lanette Siragusa announced the first 3 cases of COVID-19.
The province knew this was going to happen, however, there are stories of shortages of non-public protective appliances (PPEs) around the world. Roussin, Siragusa and the provincial government are working to ensure that supplies are good enough, while COVID-19 control sites are being announced Workplaces are beginning to move away socially. The state of emergency has been declared.
Gyms and fitness centers are closing, hospital visits are very limited and restrictions are emerging across Canada. Before the end of the month, schools close and there’s a death.
The closure of businesses, places to eat and schools is underway. The highest number of cases noted in a day so far, 40, was announced earlier this month. Teachers have to find a totally new way to teach online. .
People are told to stay home and wash their hands. Masks are the subject of debate, but Roussin said at the time that there is no evidence from the company that masks will save your disease. Confusion reigns as the province continues to search to unload PPE and there are still five deaths.
But good news. Prime Minister Brian Pallister announces the reopening plan and the number of instances decreases. Last April, six manitoba residents died as a result of COVID-19.
Mayo remains calm as the maximum turnover is still closed, with the exception of business. However, some fitness restrictions are lifted and some corporations may operate according to strict fitness guidelines, such as beauty salons and patios to eat.
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Pallister’s government is pronouncing several systems for tenants, business owners, academics and others, but warns that the provincial deficit could increase to $5 billion for the year. There’s a little outbreak at Paul’s Hauling in Brandon.
The inhabitants of Manitoba are still limited to no more than 10 other people who coincide with the meeting. A new death was reported in May.
The month of June begins with a further relaxation of restrictions. From now on, bowling alleys, recreation centers, bars, restaurants and many other businesses are allowed to open, but with restrictions. At the end of this month, a third phase of reopening begins. for larger and open public meetings between Manitoba and the western provinces and northern Ontario.
The city of Winnipeg reports a calamitous fiscal situation, with a deficit of more than $50 million, but the city’s libraries are slowly opening, and word spreads that they will soon also open city-owned pools. limited internal visits are open in non-public care homes. Manitoba’s Minister of Education said academics would return to elegance in the fall.
The number of new instances decreases at the end of the month and no new deaths are reported in June.
The month of July begins without new instances being reported, which initiates a series of positive tests that will last until five are reported. On July 14th, let’s be complacent.
Churches reopen amid comfortable restrictions and the CFL says Winnipeg will be the league’s hub for a 2020 season imaginable shortened. In the middle of the month, the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in a Hutterita colony in Manitoba that eventually reached case burdens in the province’s colonies.
The province is advancing with a small quarter of reopening, adding the opening of casinos and cinemas to reduced capacity, but is abandoning a plan to lift the self-de-insulation requirement for travelers to eastern Canada after public considerations have been raised.
An eighth COVID-19 death is reported at the end of the month, while the number of new instances continues to increase.
August
The number of instances is expanding in early August, as the inhabitants of Manitoba get used to seeing double-digit increases day by day. In Winnipeg, city officials are reopening recreational facilities and swimming pools. COVID-19 cases are shown at the Maple Leaf red meat processing plant in Brandon and new installation-like cases are announced daily.
The use of masks is proliferating as some corporations begin to ask consumers to wear them. The province is pronouncing a four-tier reaction formula for outbreaks. Cases are expanding in the Prairie Mountain Health region, adding Brandon, and the province is enduing restrictions in the region.
The province says academics will return to elegance on September 8 and, nevertheless, will return to a plan not to make the mask mandatory in schools. Winnipeg loses the chance of being a central city for the CFL when the league announces that there will be no 2020 season. The highest number of cases to date, 72, was reported on August 23.
As parents eagerly prepare their back-to-school plans, the province has 469 active instances until the end of the month and outbreaks have been reported in several non-public care homes. The number of COVID-19 deaths in the province has increased. up to 14.
All eyes are on Manitoba schools, as teachers return on September 2 to prepare for students a week later, and two more deaths are reported the next day.
Students return to school after the long Labor Day weekend and the first case in a classroom is reported the next day. Health officials say a seventh grader at Churchill High School in Winnipeg tested positive while in school on the first day of his return They say the student did not contract the virus at school and the threat of spread is low because he dressed in a mask and maintained adequate physical distances at school.
Despite the protection measures in place in schools, provincial knowledge shows that not all parents sign up: a 25% increase. The province is expanding the knowledge it provides for case counting in Winnipeg, by dividing the figures into 12 other neighbourhoods for the first time.
As of September 11, Manitoba had recorded a total of 1,393 COVID-19 since March 12, 16 mantobans had died, and 1,090 are believed to have recovered from the virus.
Questions about COVID-19? Here are some things you want to know:
Symptoms can come with fever, cough and shortness of breath, very little by little without blood or flu. Some others would likely develop a more serious disease. Other people who are most at risk are older people and others with serious chronic diseases such as heart, lung or kidney disease. If symptoms expand, contact your public health authorities.
To prevent the virus from spreading, experts propose to wash their hands regularly and cough up their sleeves; they also propose to minimize contact with others, stay at home as much as possible and stay within two metres of others. In conditions where it cannot be kept at a safe distance from others, public fitness officials recommended the use of a mask or non-medical blanket to prevent the spread of respiratory droplets that can bring the virus. In some provinces and municipalities across the country, masks or masks are now mandatory in indoor public spaces.
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