Manitoba bans visitors to homes, in-store sales of non-essential items |
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| Manitoba, dealing with the highest per capita daily COVID-19 case numbers among Canadian provinces, is enacting new orders effective Friday to limit the spread of the virus.
The public health orders will forbid people from having anyone inside their home who doesn’t live there, with limited exceptions, and prohibit businesses from selling non-essential items in stores. In addition, large retailers are to restrict capacity at a given time to 25 per cent of their normal limit or a maximum of 250 people, whichever is lower. Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin said previous, less strict measures clearly hadn’t proven effective, and he pleaded with Manitobans to stay home in the near future and only go out for essential items. There were 475 new cases of COVID-19 and eight more deaths in the province on Thursday, with a significant five-day test positivity rate at 14 per cent. A record 263 patients are in hospital, up 14 from the previous day, and 43 people are in intensive care as a result of COVID-19, also a new high. |
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Covid-19 Expert
