Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local News

The national modeling says strong preventative measures would see 11,000 people die from COVID-19 while no measures would see 300,000 people die over the course of the pandemic.

Measures include enhanced protection against COVID-19.

Move would apply to residential travel, amid concerns cottagers from Manitoba will flock to Lake of the Woods area over Easter weekend.

One employee, who tested positive for COVID-19, was on site between March 29 and April 4 and is now at home in self-quarantine; his fellow crew members were sent home to self-isolate.

Fort William First Nation is ordering all businesses on the territory to close temporarily for two weeks starting this Friday

Staff is being trained to work in isolation unit, which can hold up to 36 patients. At present there are three confirmed cases in hospital and 18 presumptive cases.

Rehabilitation can begin because the dam is critical infrastructure

The province has been testing between 2,000 and 3,000 people per day, but Premier Doug Ford says the province has the capacity to test 13,000 people a day for COVID-19.

Good Friday service will start at 11 a.m., while Easter Sunday service begins at 10:30 a.m.