Manitoba Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Jazz Atwal reports they continue to look at the provinces public health orders following the changes made this week.  He explains as the pandemic changed, as the virus changed their approach changed as well.  He says they are actively monitoring the trend, data and surveillance to determine their next step with the goal of continuing to review restrictions over the long term and into the spring.  He adds one of the key tools to the reduction of public health orders is vaccination adding increasing vaccination is one way we can continue to keep ourselves and each other safe in the months ahead.

Atwal notes they look at the data monitoring such things as hospitalizations, ICU numbers, the test positivity rate, vaccine rates, available modeling and other relevant data and we continue to head in a very good direction in relation to the impact of COVID-19 on Manitobans and its impact on the health care system.