Manitoba First Nation enters month-long lockdown after reporting biggest jump in COVID-19 cases – CBC

‘We definitely have to contain this,’ says Derrick Henderson, chief of Sagkeeng First Nation

May 12, 2021

A First Nation near Lake Winnipeg is going into lockdown for a month after recording its highest single-day spike of COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began.

Sagkeeng First Nation entered lockdown Wednesday evening after reporting 20 new COVID-19 cases, including 17 variant of concern cases, on Tuesday. There was a record 48 total known active cases in the community Tuesday, according to a COVID-19 bulletin issued by the community.

The First Nation, located just over 100 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, has 143 residents in isolation. But that amount is expected to “sharply increase” after Tuesday’s case count, the bulletin says.

“We definitely have to contain this,” Chief Derrick Henderson told CBC News.

“We can flatten the curve by people not being mobile in the community.”

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/sagkeeng-first-nation-manitoba-covid-19-lockdown-1.6024666