Manitoba in worse COVID-19 position than fall lockdown: Osler The province’s COVID-19 dashboard for students and staff shows there are currently 152 coronavirus cases in 76 Manitoba schools.
Of those, 39 are variant of concern cases.Since the beginning of the school year, there have been a total of 2,650 cases, including 68 variants of concern, according to the dashboard.Students make up roughly 75 per cent of all cases.It’s believed most students are catching the virus outside the classroom, but James Bedford, president of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society, said he’s still concerned.“Students may not yet be contracting COVID-19 in school, but that doesn’t mean they’re not potentially coming into schools infected by the virus and potentially.