Manitoba's streak with no new COVID-19 cases is in the past now, while northern Saskatchewan is showing signs of progress.
Five cases were reported in Manitoba July, each in people in their 40s and younger. Two of the cases were found in Southern Health-Sante Sud - a female between 10 and 19 years old and a woman in her 30s. The remainder of the cases were found in Winnipeg - two people, a woman and a man in their 20s - and a man in his 40s from the Interlake-Eastern Health Region.
One of the people who tested positive flew on two WestJet flights between Winnipeg and Calgary, flying to Calgary June 27 and flying back to Winnipeg July 2.
The five cases reported July 14 are now the only active cases reported province-wide. Manitoba had only one reported active case of COVID-19 July 13.
In Saskatchewan, five more new cases of COVID-19 were found, with none found in either far north or northern Saskatchewan. Three cases were found in central Saskatchewan, with one more case in Saskatoon and the fifth case in Regina. Seventy-six active cases remain in Saskatchewan.
For the first time in months, active cases in northern Saskatchewan have dropped into single digits. Only nine people in total within the region - six in the far north, three in the north - still have COVID-19.
Within La Loche, the community hardest hit by COVID-19 in the far north, only one active case of the disease remained as of July 1. The nearby Clearwater River Dene Nation, which saw an outbreak of its own, was completely clear of COVID-19 July 13 - all 62 people in the community had recovered from the disease and no active cases remained.
The province's case load took a jump July 13, when 56 new cases were reported province-wide over the weekend, including cases in several rural municipalities in southern and western Saskatchewan.
