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Dr. Brent Roussin says Manitoba has three new cases of COVID-19 for a provincial total of 224. 11 people are hospitalized with five in the ICU. 76 people are listed as recovered, and the number of deaths remains at 3. #glbwpg
"These last few days have seen relatively few new cases being reported," Dr. Roussin says. Doesn't want Manitobans to ease off social distancing because of this, saying our efforts are what's keeping the numbers down. #glbwpg
Symptomatic police officers and firefighters are now being added to the list of people being tested for the virus. #glbwpg
Public health officials issued their first health order to a tattoo parlour in Brandon yesterday. No fines were handed. #glbwpg
Dr. Roussin says while Manitoba's new cases have been low in recent days, other jurisdictions are seeing deaths and hundreds of new cases a day. #glbwpg
"We cannot now get together for family dinners," Dr. Roussin says. "Stay home." Notes staying home doesn't mean going to the cottage, going to a faith gathering or taking the family out for activities. #glbwpg
Dr. Roussin says he's aware the social distancing measures are challenging -- especially right now -- but says they're paying dividends. Urges Manitobans to keep going on physical distancing to keep those case numbers down. #glbwpg
Dr. Roussin says you shouldn't look to see if there's a case of COVID-19 in your community to take the social distancing measures seriously -- you should be doing it regardless. #glbwpg
Lanette Siragusa, provincial lead on health system integration, is speaking now. Says they're working on guidelines for the "safe extended use" of personal protective equipment to help manage supply (which has been impacted by disruption to the supply chain). #glbwpg
Siragusa says Canada Goose is ramping up PPE for frontline workers in Manitoba -- including making 100,000 reusable medical gowns for healthcare workers. #glbwpg
The average wait time for Health Links has been between 12 minutes and 28 minutes over the last week (we haven't had those numbers for a while -- 12 minutes being the lowest average and 28 minutes the highest average). #glbwpg
Several of the province's testing centres for COVID-19 will be closed tomorrow on Good Friday. Others will be open with reduced hours over the long weekend, while some will be open regular hours. #glbwpg
Siragusa says the COVID case contact centre is up and running on contact tracing -- doing daily calls of people linked to positive cases to check on their symptoms and how they're doing self-isolating. #glbwpg
Dr. Roussin says certainly they're happy to see a continued drop in active cases but they don't want Manitobans to take that as a decreased risk. "This weekend is concerning to me, the timing of it," Dr. Roussin says. Says actions this weekend will have an impact in future weeks.
