Winnipeg’s cottage country towns did not see the typical influx of visitors over the long weekend amid public health recommendations to travel without stopping for supplies to quell the threat of spreading COVID-19.
But some seasonal residents did travel. “With the reopening strategy, we’ve moved from that ‘stay home’ to ‘stay safe’,” Manitoba’s top public health official Dr.
Brent Roussin said last Wednesday ahead of the long weekend. “But we do want people to recognize, and I think Manitobans do, that this isn’t back to normal, though.
There’s a lot of precautions people still need to take.” Gimli’s mayor said the Interlake town saw some seasonal residents arrive over the Victoria Day weekend. “There wasn’t as many people out as there