"We need to have these restrictions be the least restrictive that we need for that time," Roussin said over the Friday supper hour. On Friday, when Manitoba finally announced a lockdown, Roussin suggested he was never in favour of bringing out the heavy guns early, the way the Atlantic provinces have, with varying degrees of success. The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care surged this week and is now expected to reach new pandemic heights within days. It is fair to say the province missed a window to avert another crisis. "It's forgivable to make a mistake and to learn from that mistake, but it's not forgivable to refuse to face reality and learn from your mistakes," Health Sciences Centre ICU physician Dan Roberts said earlier this week. Call for renewed lockdown as rising patient numbers point to 'deep, deep circumstances': Manitoba doctors.That is when the opportunity first presented itself for Manitoba's now-experienced pandemic managers to enact a province-wide circuit breaker. To anyone capable of reading a graph, it was clear COVID-19 cases were growing at an exponential rate in Manitoba once more by the end of the second week in April. On the other hand, it appears Manitoba squandered its advantage. It took more time for more contagious variants of concern to take off in Manitoba than it did anywhere else west of New Brunswick, likely because Manitoba reinstated interprovincial quarantine back in January. On one hand, this province did well to delay the third wave of COVID-19. This experience makes Manitoba's third lockdown more difficult to comprehend. Up until last fall, no one in this province had any experience managing the spread of a highly contagious disease capable of killing nearly three per cent of the people who catch it.īut after that nightmarish experience, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of grandfathers and grandmothers - including some left to waste in their own beds without care - it is safe to say this province gained a great understanding of what it's like to try and fail to slow the spread of COVID-19. Salons, gyms among many businesses closing Sunday for Manitoba's 3-week lockdown.Brent Roussin said he expected to achieve success in slowing the spread of the virus last fall by increasing restrictions in small increments, there is no reason to doubt his word. Nonetheless, when Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Officials in Manitoba had time to see what went wrong in Quebec and Ontario personal care homes during the deadly first waves in those provinces.
There were indications last fall provincial public health authorities could have acted more quickly to tamp down the spread of the virus. During the second wave of the pandemic, Manitoba suffered from Canada's highest COVID-19 infection rate and Winnipeg in particular was a deadly place to be if you happened to be old and living in a personal care home. The second lockdown, in November 2020, happened out of necessity. The first wave of the pandemic was more like a ripple on a pond.
Only weeks in the global pandemic, no one in Manitoba had any clue what would happen when the novel coronavirus made its way into the Prairies.Īs it turned out, it largely didn't.
The first time, in April 2020, the entire province shut down out of an abundance of caution. For the third time since the start of this wretched pandemic, Manitoba is locking down.
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