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The numbers showing a continued drop in Winnipeg’s test positivity rate are also positive, but the situation in the northern part of the province is a deep concern, she added.“It’s a vast region with many isolated, hard-to-reach communities,” she said, “counting for about six per cent of our population, but it counts for about half our active cases in the province right now — and a large percentage of northern residents in the hospital, which would mean probably needing to come to Winnipeg for that.