The province removed vaccine mandates yesterday and mask mandates will be removed March 15th.

 

And despite COVID case numbers starting to drop province-wide, Dr. William Libich, Medical Officer of Health with the Northern Health Region urges caution.

 

“Although we too have had a decline in our cases, there is still significant COVID-19 activity in the North, concentrated around Thompson, The Pas, and Flin Flon. Some of the First Nations communities in the North continue to experience health breaks, some of them quite large. We also have a few outbreaks in several of our personal care homes at the present time so this tells us that the pandemic is not over and we cannot let our guard down.”

 

Libich says one of the best ways to combat COVID-19 is still to get a vaccine.   

 

With the Novavax recombinant protein vaccine recently approved by Health Canada, Libich hopes Manitobans who are vaccine-hesitant will consider this option. 

 

For more on COVID-19, new testing guidelines and new treatments, catch Thompson Today at 12:40 and 5:10 this afternoon.