Health
Province sets record with 42 COVID-19 cases in one day – Winnipeg Free Press
After more than a week of double-digit positive tests, Manitoba set a record for daily COVID-19 cases Saturday with 42 new cases identified in the province, bringing the total number of lab-confirmed positive cases to 872.
More than half of Saturday’s new cases were identified in the Prairie Mountain Health region where 24 new cases were identified as of 9:30 a.m. Saturday. An additional 16 cases were recorded in the Southern health region and two were identified in Winnipeg.
Data from provincial health authorities shows that six individuals are currently in hospital, including one in the intensive care unit. There are currently 290 active cases of the virus in Manitoba and 570 people have recovered. Twelve Manitobans have died as a result of the virus.
New cases identified across the province have held steadily in the double-digits for 10 days, reaching the previous peak of 40 new cases on Sunday. The majority of cases have cropped up in the Prairie Mountain Health region, where clusters have been identified in Brandon, primarily stemming from an outbreak at the Maple Leaf Foods plant.
Most new cases in previous days have been linked to close contacts of known cases, though Manitoba’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin has acknowledged evidence of community spread in Brandon.
As a result, the province has placed restrictions on the Prairie Mountain region in accordance with the #RestartMB Pandemic Response System. As of Monday, those living in the Prairie Mountain region will be required to wear masks in all indoor public places and at all indoor or outdoor public gatherings. Gathering sizes have been restricted to 10 people both indoors and outdoors.
The Prairie Mountain region leads the province for currently active cases with 125, according to government data. Winnipeg follows with 80 active cases, the Southern Health region with 79 and the Interlake-Eastern region with six. The government reports no active cases in the Northern health region, where all three previous recorded cases of the virus have been resolved.
In a release posted to Facebook on Friday evening, Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation announced one active case of the virus had been identified in the Fox Lake community after an individual travelled from the Prairie Mountain region to visit family in the northern Manitoba town of Gillam. The individual was in Gillam from August 12 to August 21, the release said, and returned to the Prairie Mountain region upon testing positive Friday. The individual was reportedly informed of potential contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the Prairie Mountain region and immediately self-isolated away from family.
Contact tracing in Gillam has taken place, and all close contacts to the case are self-isolating, Fox Lake Cree Nation said in the release.
The current five-day test positivity rate is 1.8 per cent in Manitoba, down slightly from two per cent on Friday. The province reports an additional 1,849 laboratory tests were completed Friday, bringing the total number of tests completed since early February to 124,140.
The province’s public health officials are asking Manitobans to return to the “fundamentals” of COVID-19 prevention, including staying home when feeling ill, proper hand-washing, covering coughs, maintaining two-metre physical distancing when possible and wearing masks when unable to physically distance.
Public health officials have also announced a new testing site will open at 2735 Pembina Highway in Winnipeg as of Tuesday. The site will be open to the public on a walk-in basis, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., seven days per week, replacing the Access Fort Garry testing location which will close after Monday.
Only Manitobans experiencing symptoms of the virus should go for testing, the province said, unless recommended by public health.
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Alberta Health Services (AHS) has confirmed a case of measles in Edmonton, and is advising the public that the individual was out in public while infectious.
Measles is an extremely contagious disease that is spread easily through the air, and can only be prevented through immunization.
AHS says individuals who were in the following locations during the specified dates and times, may have been exposed to measles.
- April 16
- Edmonton International Airport, international arrivals and baggage claim area — between 3:20 p.m. and 6 p.m.
- April 20
- Stollery Children’s Hospital Emergency Department — between 5 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- April 22
- 66th Medical Clinic (13635 66 St NW Edmonton) — between 12:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
- Pharmacy 66 (13637 66 St NW Edmonton) — between 12:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
- April 23
- Stollery Children’s Hospital Emergency Department — between 4:40 a.m. to 9:33 a.m.
AHS says anyone who attended those locations during those times is at risk of developing measles if they’ve not had two documented doses of measles-containing vaccine.
Those who have not had two doses, who are pregnant, under one year of age, or have a weakened immune system are at greatest risk of getting measles and should contact Health Link at 1-877-720-0707.
Symptoms
Symptoms of measles include a fever of 38.3° C or higher, cough, runny nose, and/or red eyes, a red blotchy rash that appears three to seven days after fever starts, beginning behind the ears and on the face and spreading down the body and then to the arms and legs.
If you have any of these symptoms stay home and call Health Link.
In Alberta, measles vaccine is offered, free of charge, through Alberta’s publicly funded immunization program. Children in Alberta typically receive their first dose of measles vaccine at 12 months of age, and their second dose at 18 months of age.
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U.S. tightens rules for dairy cows a day after bird flu virus fragments found in pasteurized milk samples – Toronto Star
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Infected cows were already prohibited from being transported out of state, but that was based on the physical characteristics of the milk, which looks curdled when a cow is infected, or a cow has decreased lactation or low appetite, both symptoms of infection.
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