As of Friday afternoon, northern Manitoba is back to being COVID-19 free.
The one remaining active case of COVID-19 in the region, reported in the Gillam-Fox Lake Cree Nation district, is now reported as "recovered" by the provincial government as of August 28. The region is now free of COVID-19 cases once again - the Gillam-Fox Lake Cree Nation case was the first one reported in the area since early April.
The case was tied to a previous case in Prairie Mountain Health, which involved a person living in southwest Manitoba who travelled to Gillam and stayed there for several days before being notified they had been in contact with an infected person, being tested and testing positive. The case announced in the Northern Health Region was a close contact of the person who had travelled north before testing positive.
The positive case was first announced August 23, only five days before the person was announced as recovered.
Within Manitoba, 32 new cases of COVID-19 were announced August 28, with the most cases - 18 in total - announced in Prairie Mountain Health. Seven cases were found in Winnipeg, while six were found in Southern Health-Sante Sud and one in the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority. Throughout the province, 418 people currently have COVID-19, while 1,096 people have tested positive during the pandemic.
Saskatchewan's COVID-19 cases continue to drop. The province reported two new cases of COVID-19, one in the far north west region and one in Saskatoon. The new cases were countered with 16 new reported recoveries from the disease. Active cases in Saskatchewan are now down to 44, with 20 cases tied to "communal living settings". The newly announced far north west COVID-19 case is the only active case in the far north region.
Three people are currently hospitalized in Saskatchewan, with two people now in intensive care.
