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A roundup of COVID-19 developments for Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022
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This Remembrance Day will be the first one in three years where there will be no restrictions on ceremonies to mark our war dead.
This Remembrance Day will also be the first one in which the number of Canadians who died of COVID surpassed the number of Canadians who lost their lives in the Second World War. The country’s body count from the global pandemic now stands at 47,087. By contrast, 42,042 Canadian men and woman in uniform gave their lives during that global conflict.
We know how to mark our war dead. We do it with last posts and postage stamps, commemorative coins and concrete cenotaphs. We don’t quite know how to mark our COVID dead. In many cases, we weren’t even able to attend their funerals, owing to public health restrictions.
I don’t know what the appetite will be for us as a country, a province and a city to remember what we lost during this time. I worry our desire to turn the page and to get back to life as we once knew it will leave those who died from the virus buried in a past we want to forget.
But lest we forget, there will still be time for us to consider how to publicly mark the private grief that has shaped much of what has now been nearly three years of life and death. Unlike our war-time foes, COVID shows no signs of surrender, which means there will be plenty more deaths to come. In fact, on the eve of Remembrance Day, Manitoba announced that 24 more lives were lost to the virus, pushing the province’s death toll to 2,256.
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The provincial government is no longer providing daily data on the state of COVID-19 in Manitoba. Figures are now provided in a weekly report.
A review of the impact of COVID-19 in Manitoba, updated weekly.
For the latest public health guidance, visit the provincial government’s website.
The province’s website also offers information on testing availability and eligibility and vaccine availability and eligibility, and tips on COVID-19 prevention and risk assessment.
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