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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 18, 2020, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A3 THE IMMERSIVE EXHIBITION Created by Annabelle Mauger & Julien Baron SEPTEMBER 24 to OCTOBER 31, 2020 RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg www.imagine-vangogh.ca ENTER TO WIN TICKETS! For your chance to win go to winnipegfreepress.com/contests No purchase necessary. Contest deadline is noon on September 30, 2020. Winner will be contacted by phone and must correctly answer a time-limited, skill-testing question. Employees of the Winnipeg Free Press and any participating sponsors are not eligible to win. This information is used only by the Winnipeg Free Press and is not sold, bartered, traded or given to any other parties. KAYE’S AUCTION HOUSE UNRESERVED ONLINE ESTATE VEHICLE AUCTION SALE Online Bidding from Wed., Sept. 16th at 12:00 p.m. to Wed., Sept. 23rd at 8:00 p.m. Viewing by appointment only GO TO: www.kayesauctions.com to VIEW & BID ONLINE Terms: Cash, Visa, Mastercard, and Debit Paid in Full. Subject to Buyer’s Fee. “Subject to Additions & Deletions” Everything Sold As Is, Where Is With no warranties implied or expressed KAYE’S AUCTIONS 204-668-0183 (Wpg) Having received instructions thru the Office of the Trustee we will sell the following Estate vehicles: 2011 Kawasaki ZG1400 Concours ABS bike (showing 4,792 miles) *2008 GMC Sierra 1500 regular cab, 8’ box, RWD, 4.8 lt., V8, AM/ FM, AC, crank windows, new battery, runs nice, (showing 61,321 km) dents on tailgate, damage on driver side door* 2006 Chevrolet HHR LT, AT, AC, AM/FM, CD, runs (showing 310,073 km), missing backseats and floor, has damage on front and rear of car, front lip falling off, front quarter panel dented, scratched and rusting, dents and scratches all over, pass. door rusting, spare tire cover is missing, rough shape* 2006 Ford Escape XLT, V6, 3.0L, 4x4, runs (showing 88,855 km) * 1982 Jaguar XJS (not running, in parts)* 1987 Yamaha TW200 motorcycle, old gas, sat for a long time, not running/not seized* Note: Pickup is Thursday, Sept. 24th from 9:00 to 4:00 p.m. and Friday, Sept. 25th from 9:00-3:30 p.m. All vehicles must be removed by Friday, Sept. 25th at 3:30 p.m Award winning journalism every Saturday from the people who know Manitoba. COVID-19 PANDEMIC ASSOCIATE EDITOR NEWS: STACEY THIDRICKSON 204-697-7292 ● CITY.DESK@FREEPRESS.MB.CA ● WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COM A3 FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 COVID-19 AT A GLANCE Cases: MANITOBA Confirmed: 1,500 Recovered: 1,191 Deaths: 16 Active: 293 CANADA Confirmed: 140,867 Recovered: 123,071 Deaths: 9,200 (as of 5:42 p.m. Thursday) The latest from Manitoba: ● Public health officials reported 11 new cases of the coronavirus in Manitoba on Thursday, bringing the total so far to 1,500. Eight of the cases are in Winnipeg, while two are in the Southern Health region and one is in the Prairie Mountain Health region. Dr. Brent Roussin an- nounced that restrictions recently imposed on residents of Prairie Mountain Health due to virus outbreaks there are being reduced as the situation has improved and the region is being lowered to the COVID-19 caution (yellow) level as of today. The region, which includes Brandon, once had a five-day test positivity rate as high as 5.6 per cent. The rate now stands at 0.4 per cent. There are 293 active cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba, with 10 people in hospital and two in intensive care. A total of 1,403 laboratory tests were conducted Wed- nesday. The current five-day test positivity rate for the province is 1.7 per cent. The latest from elsewhere: ● The host of a private gathering at a Saskatoon home that resulted in 21 people contracting COVID-19 has been fined $2,000. Saskatchewan’s chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab, wouldn’t provide details about the event to protect the privacy of the organizer, but says about 47 people attended. The current gather- ing limit is 30 people indoors when physical distancing can be maintained. Shahab says the gathering was a super-spreader event, as 160 people have been identi- fied as contacts of those who attended and some cases have been connected to schools. ● A coalition of organizations representing the tourism sector says the federal government must keep its wage-subsidy program in place well into next year to help businesses with dire prospects for recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Forty different groups have banded together in a “coalition of hardest-hit businesses” to place public pressure on the Liberal government to rethink the planned phase-out of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy program beginning this month. The program sees the federal government cover as much as 75 per cent of wages depending on how much revenue a business has lost due to COVID-19. ● Edmonton, currently hosting the Stanley Cup playoffs without fans in a COVID-19-free bubble zone, will now do the same for the upcoming world junior hockey championship. The International Ice Hockey Federation confirmed Thursday that it has accepted a Hockey Canada pitch to have Rogers Place in the city’s downtown host the event, without fans in attendance. Originally, Edmonton and the city of Red Deer were to host the event starting Dec. 26 and ending Jan. 5, 2021. Edmonton will now host all the games. The plan is to still end on Jan. 5 but organizers say they may start the tournament before Boxing Day. ● The Quebec government is hoping a new advertising campaign with testimonials from people who’ve had COVID-19 or lost someone to it will persuade skeptics who question the disease’s seriousness. Premier Fran- çois Legault said he requested the tougher advertising campaign to get the public health message across to “people who still think that there is no danger.” ● India reported another record daily increase in coronavirus infections Thursday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government faced scathing oppos- ition criticism in Parliament over its handling of the pandemic. Confirmed cases jumped by 97,894 in the past 24 hours, raising India’s total past 5.1 million, 0.36 per cent of its nearly 1.4 billion people, the Health Ministry reported. It also said 1,132 more people died in the past 24 hours, for a total of 83,198. India’s fatalities are the third most in the world, but experts say India has undercounted the COVID-19 toll. India’s infection numbers are expected within weeks to pass the United States, where more than 6.6 million people have been infected. ● Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning that authorities “may have no choice” but to enact even tighter measures as the country heads into a second lockdown following a months-long rise in coronavirus cases. Netanyahu predicts that other countries will also be forced to impose new closures to contain the pandemic. Israel’s government is imposing widespread restrictions starting today, with many businesses closed and people largely confined to their homes. A similar lockdown in the spring largely contained the outbreak. Israel has reported more than 172,000 cases since the start of the outbreak, including at least 1,163 deaths. Quote: “I think we have to plan for these Games occurring without a vaccine.” — Dr. Mike Wilkinson, Canada’s Olympic team doctor, looking ahead to the Tokyo Games, now scheduled to start in July 2021 ‘Nobody knew what to do’ Manitoba’s first in-school COVID outbreak leaves questions, worries in wake B REANNE Gylywoychuk had more questions than answers after receiving an email Tues- day night saying her son would not be able to attend school in person the next day. Connor, 11, was one of 250 stu- dents affected by the COVID-19 outbreak at John Pritchard School. With seven cases currently being attributed to one cohort of students and staff, students in a Grade 4/5 split class, grades 6, 7 and 8, as well as the before- and after-school program have been forced to study remotely for two weeks. Manitoba’s pandemic response system has declared the Winnipeg school a “restricted” code orange — the first school in the prov- ince to receive the designation. “They can only give you so much information, and it was stressful,” Gylywoychuk said Thursday. Her family received the email just before 9 p.m. Tuesday. About 20 min- utes later, her son’s teacher called to check in and ensure they had read it. Gylywoychuk, a stay-at-home mom, said she was lucky to have been able to get her ducks in a row quickly, but knew of families where both parents who work were forced to rush. How- ever, she found herself unsure what to do with her other children — a “frus- tration” caused by unclear messaging from the province. “My biggest concern was what all of it meant for my other three kids, be- cause through all of this, there hasn’t been a lot of conversation about if this happens, what do you do with the other siblings,” she said. “Do I send them to school? So that was more immediately where my head went.” Ultimately, Gylywoychuk decided to keep all four home Wednesday, and went through Health Links for answers. After she was told her other three children can attend school, they went back to class Thursday. “It feels like a lot of the messages they’re conveying are based on if you have one kid in one school, but a lot of the parents I talk to, we have multiple kids in multiple schools and nobody knew what to do,” she said. “We were all messaging each other, ‘Are your sending your kids? Are you not? What do we do?’ and nobody knew what to do.” Chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin had little to add about the outbreak during a media briefing Thursday, confirming all seven cases at John Pritchard School have been connected to one cohort in one classroom. He said health profes- sionals were still investigating the index case and degree of spread in the cohort. “It’s always nice to be able to link cases together, it leaves less uncer- tainty… so more to come on that as our investigation continues,” he said. Regardless of the confusion and short notice, Gylywoychuk said the transition to online learning was easier the second time around, thanks to teachers who had sent along schedul- ing. A sense of fear, however, still remained — some focused on the fact her child has been affected by the first in-school outbreak in the province, but much of the difficulty coming from the uncertainty of dealing with a pandem- ic as a parent. “You’re just trying to do what you think is best, whether that’s home- schooling or sending them to school, so that’s been difficult. I’ve been constantly second-guessing myself… I really wish remote learning was an op- tion from the beginning (of the 2020-21 school year),” she said. “Because it kind of felt like either you’re totally in charge of your child’s education or you have to risk their health.” malak.abas@freepress.mb.ca Twitter: malakabas_ MALAK ABAS MantarioCabin.ca Unplug. Reconnect with nature. JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Breanne Gylywoychuk, with her son Connor, says it was stressful and frustrating finding answers after the school outbreak. A_05_Sep-18-20_FP_01.indd A3 2020-09-17 10:49 PM ;