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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 1, 2020, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A3 Terms: Cash, Visa, Mastercard, and Debit Paid in Full. Buyers Fee: $20.00 flat fee per vehicle “Subject to Additions and Deletions” Everything Sold As Is, Where Is with no warranties implied or expressed KAYE’S AUCTIONS (204) 668-0183 (Wpg.) www.kayesauctions.com NOW ONLINE! UNRESERVED Vehicle AUCTION SALE “UNDER THE GARAGE KEEPERS ACT” for Tartan Towing Bidding starts Saturday, Oct. 3rd at 12:00 p.m. and closes Wednesday, Oct. 7th at 8:00 p.m. Viewing: Monday, Oct. 5th from 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Viewing location: 1425 Brookside Blvd. S. Notice is hereby given, that In order to Satisfy outstanding Towing & Storage charges under authority of “The Garage Keepers Act” of Manitoba, the following units & others will be sold by Unreserved Public Auction. All vehicles are sold “As Is, Where Is” with No Guarantee as to year or Condition. Serial Number & Year are only a guideline. “They’re not necessarily always correct.” ***NOTE*** It’s up to the purchaser to check out the status of the vehicle(s). Everything Sold “AS IS, WHERE IS”. Though all description and commentary are believed to be correct, neither Auctioneer nor Consignor makes any warranties or representations of any kind with respect to the property, and in no event shall be held responsible for having made or implied any warranty of description, genuineness, authorship, attribution, provenance, period, culture, source, origin, condition, etc. Subject to additions and deletions. NOTE: All attendees must wear a mask to the viewing 2018 BMW 440XI* 2017 Chevrolet Cruze* 2014 Dodge Ram* 2015 Kia Sorrento* 2013 Dodge Journey* 2013 Honda Civic* 2012 Dodge Caravan* 2011 Dodge Caravan* 2010 Chevrolet Cruze*2010 Chevrolet Equinox* 2010 Chevrolet Malibu* 2010 Chevrolet Impala* 2010 Ford F150* 2008 Pontiac G6* 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix* 2008 Dodge Charger* 2008 Hyundai Accent*2007 Chrysler Sebring* 2007 Dodge Caravan* plus approx. 90 other vehicles* GO TO: www.kayesauctions.com TO VIEW & BID ONLINE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ASSOCIATE EDITOR NEWS: STACEY THIDRICKSON 204-697-7292 ● CITY.DESK@FREEPRESS.MB.CA ● WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COM A3 THURSDAY OCTOBER 1, 2020 COVID-19 AT A GLANCE Cases: MANITOBA Confirmed: 1,993 Resolved: 1,374 Deaths: 20 Active: 599 CANADA Confirmed: 158,765 Resolved: 134,924 Deaths: 9,297 (As of 6 p.m. Wednesday) The latest: ● Scientists are starting to unravel why some people are mildly ill or have no symptoms and others rapidly die from the virus. Researchers have found in some people with severe COVID-19, the body goes rogue and attacks one of its own key immune defences instead of fighting the coronavirus. Most were men, helping to ex- plain why the virus is hitting men harder than women. Separate research suggests children fare better than adults thanks to robust “first responder” immune cells that wane with age. People’s wildly varying reactions also reflect other factors, such as their general health and how much exposure they had to the virus. Next is figuring out if these new clues might offer much- needed ways to intervene. ● The number of downloads of the federal govern- ment’s COVID Alert app topped three million Wednes- day. More than 250,000 new downloads happened in the past week, including a spike of more than 100,000 people who downloaded the app in the two or three hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned it during a nationwide, televised address Sept. 23. The app is currently operating in Ontario, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Saskatchewan, with the Manitoba and Quebec governments saying this week they will add it in their jurisdictions as well. ● In North Dakota, hospitals are adding extra space amid concerns from employees about capacity. Nearly 678 COVID-19 infections per 100,000 people have been diagnosed over the past two weeks, leading the United States for new cases per capita. A new hospital unit opened in Bismarck to add 14 more beds, with nearly half of those for intensive care patients. A total of 21,401 people in the state have tested positive since the start of the pandemic and 105 are now hospitalized. ● The Jordanian government has authorized mosques, churches, cafés and restaurants to reopen on Thursday, despite record levels of new coronavirus cases. The kingdom on Wednesday reported 1,767 new cases, the highest daily total since the start of the pandemic, rais- ing the overall number of cases to more than 11,800. ● Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is “urgently advising” people throughout the Netherlands to start wearing face masks in indoor public areas. Rutte says the government doesn’t plan to legislate to make masks obligatory. Instead, he says, “let’s make it an urgent advice and see how it goes.” More than 19,000 people in the Netherlands tested positive in the last week, a sharp increase from the nearly 13,500 a week earlier. Quote: “Some people go through it much more painfully than I did. I was very, very, very lucky. Some people die of that thing.” — Bloc Qué- bécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, who returned to Parliament on Wednesday, shares about his experience contracting COVID-19Download the COVID Alert app: wfp.to/covidapp ALTHOUGH it opened its doors with little notice to the public, a new mo- bile COVID-19 testing site at Portage Avenue and Wall Street had plenty of business Wednesday. The site, designed to add immediate capacity in Winnipeg, is operated by Dynacare. The province announced last week that a mobile collection site would be put into operation while addi- tional drive-thru locations are being set up. Dr. Jenisa Naidoo, Dynacare’s chief scientific officer and vice-president of clinical development and quality as- surance, said it’s expected the site will collect swabs from 80 patients per day. They’ll be sent to Dynacare labs for testing. On Sept. 22, the province announced Dynacare had been contracted to oper- ate several COVID-19 testing sites, and that it would result in 1,400 more tests a day and up to an additional 2,600 more tests. Naidoo said the latter number was already being met by both Dynacare and the Cadham Provincial Labora- tory; Dynacare is providing as many as 2,000 of those tests per day. “There’s an expanded testing model right now given the patient volume has increased. So, 2,600 was the initial amount, and with collecting more pa- tients, we can now go up to that 4,000 number,” she said. The province issued a news release announcing the new site at the same time that it opened. The testing unit is in the parking lot at 1181 Portage Ave. from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. seven days a week, and portable washrooms are available. Jared Duncalfe discovered the site on his way to the Main Street drive- thru with his eight-year-old son, who had developed symptoms Tuesday night at home in Oak Bluff. “As we were driving through, I saw the sign and looked to see how big the lineup was. We didn’t really know this was here,” Duncalfe said. When they pulled in to the lot at about 8:30 a.m., they received a slip of paper with a number on it and were told to expect a two-hour wait. People could come and go, but were encouraged to wait in their vehicles until their num- ber was displayed on a whiteboard. “I’ve heard of worse waits, and we’re not sitting outside,” he said. Most patients stayed in their vehicles to pass the time, while some arrived with coats and umbrellas to deal with the intermittent rain during the mor- ning. Additional drive-thru sites are planned for Regent Avenue West, the Polo Park area and one in the south part of the city, the province said. Naidoo said the three sites are set to open in mid-October. Drive-thru sites are expected to open in Brandon, Winkler, Portage and Dau- phin in the coming weeks. malak.abas@freepress.mb.ca Twitter: malakabas_ T HE provincial government has promised there will be no change in funding to public schools next year because more families are keeping their children home due to the COVID-19 pan- demic. “Manitoba Education is aware there has been an increase in families decid- ing to home-school this year, which may disproportionately (affect) some school divisions more than others,” a provin- cial spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday, the annual school head- count day. The spokesperson added the province is working with divisions to ensure next year’s funding is not affected by fall 2020 enrolment figures. Each year, Sept. 30 is when Manitoba’s 37 school divisions submit their respect- ive enrolment data to the province. The education department analyzes the fig- ures, assesses increases and decreases in each division, and allocates funds ac- cordingly in the following year’s budget. With that in mind, public school fam- ilies who have temporarily chosen home- school until they feel a return to the class- room is safe for their children, panicked about the implications of their decision Wednesday. So much so, Charmaine Bloomfield called her son’s school in the morning to find out if she could drop him off for attendance and then take him home. Bloomfield said a return to the classroom wasn’t an option for her son, given his grandparents’ underlying health condi- tions, and he did not immediately qualify for remote learning. The answer she said she received Wed- nesday was that the Grade 7 student, who hasn’t stepped foot in public school since last winter, had been given a “(home- school) code” and could not be part of the headcount. “It seems disingenuous for us to act as though we are homeschooling when in reality, we’d like to still be part of the division. I’d like to know that our division is going to have the funding for my child when… it’s safe to send him back,” said Bloomfield, whose family has yet to offi- cially sign up for home-schooling, in the hopes of still being a part of Seine River School Division from afar this year. Superintendent Michael Borgfjord said upwards of 200 students in the division, which stretches from St. Norbert to La Broquerie, are currently doing home- school. That’s double the typical count in Seine River in any given year. For the most part, Borgfjord said the families are located in the southeast sec- tion of the division near Steinbach and Ste. Anne. “Some people are really nervous and aren’t sure how long this is going to last. We’ve said to everybody they can come back whenever they want, so if they de- cide in January, February, March that they’re ready to come back to school, we’d be happy to have them,” he said. As of Sept. 30, 2019, Seine River count- ed 4,481 students in 15 schools — a drop of 32 pupils since the fall of 2018. In Manitoba, the K-12 public school sys- tem is funded through both the province and divisional property taxes. The prov- ince distributes operating funds based on a formula that takes into account over- all student numbers, population density, transportation demands and the enrol- ment of students with special needs. On Wednesday, the Manitoba NDP held a news conference to stress the import- ance of not using mid-pandemic enrol- ment figures to determine future public education funding. Leader Wab Kinew said the party would like to see funding rise based on inflation and population growth. This year, for the third year in a row, public education received a $6.6-million boost (a 0.5 per cent increase) in provin- cial funding, totalling $1.33 billion. The NDP has called the sum a “de facto cut” because it doesn’t meet inflation. On the province’s promise about 2021- 22 funding, the president of the Mani- toba School Boards Association said he appreciates the government’s approach, which will allow boards to budget with consistency. Alan Campbell added that while home- school enrolment is “marginally higher” than in previous years, “(parents) far and wide, are choosing public education as their first preference.” — with files from Larry Kusch maggie.macintosh@freepress.mb.ca Twitter: @macintoshmaggie FORTY new cases of COVID-19 were reported Wednesday in Manitoba: 31 of them in Winnipeg, where another personal care home has been added to the “critic- al” list. An outbreak has been de- clared at the 100-bed West End facility Calvary Place, which is moving to “code red” pandemic restrictions, public health said in a news release. The province also an- nounced a possible novel coronavirus exposure at Glenlawn Collegiate. A stu- dent who tested positive was last in the Winnipeg school the afternoon of Sept. 25. The incident was assessed to be low risk, officials said, with the infection not believed to have been acquired at school. Public health advised of another “low-risk” exposure Sept. 18 at Les enfants pré- cieux child care centre in Winnipeg; La Roca restau- rant (155 Smith St., Winnipeg) on Sept. 26; Winnipeg Tran- sit Route 14 (Paddington) on Sept. 25; Pentecostal House of Prayer at Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation on Sept. 27; and Planet Fitness on Ellice Av- enue on Sept. 23 and 24th. Of the 40 new COVID-19 cases announced Wednes- day, two are in Prairie Moun- tain Health region, two in Interlake-Eastern, one in Northern Health, and four in Southern Health. The five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate was two per cent. Thirteen Mani- tobans have been hospital- ized, including seven in in- tensive care. In Winnipeg, four were in hospital, with two in intensive care. Of the 599 active cases in Manitoba, 509 are in Winni- peg. Most are in River East (112) followed by Downtown (93), Seven Oaks (54), Fort Garry (48), River Heights (43), St. Boniface (34), Assini- boine-South (26), St. James- Assiniboia (25), St. Vital (24), Point Douglas (23), Trans- cona (13), Inkster (nine) and “unknown” (five). 40 new cases in Manitoba Eagle-eyed drivers spot new mobile COVID testing site in city MALAK ABAS MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS A new mobile COVID-19 test site is now operational at 1181 Portage Ave. Boost in home-schooling won’t affect school funding: province MAGGIE MACINTOSH LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES A teacher reviews a COVID-19 questionnaire with a student outside Principal Sparling School on the first day of school in September. A_05_Oct-01-20_FP_01.indd A3 2020-09-30 10:08 PM ;