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Cross-posting with the exposures thread since relevant to the discussion that's been taking place here...  
 
BSD has advised of exposures at three different schools:

Earl Oxford multiple cases on January 4 and 5. Grade 1/2D class, Grade 5S and Red 8 bus:
https://www.bsd.ca/news/pages/confirmed-covid-19-case---earl-oxford-school---jan.-11,-2021.aspx 

JR Reid Grade 4/5 class, January 7 and 8:
https://www.bsd.ca/news/pages/confirmed-covid-19-case---j.r.-reid-school---jan.-11,-2021.aspx 

Linden Lanes Grade 2 class, January 5 and 6:
https://www.bsd.ca/News/Pages/Confirmed-COVID-19-Case---Linden-Lane-Schools---Jan.-11,-2021.aspx 

The encouraging news... 
Just eight cases reported in all of Prairie Mountain Health today following 13 yesterday.  Eight is the lowest single-day reported PMH new case number since January 4.  
 
Just to follow-up on discussion of case count in younger people, there's been an increase of 73 in the case count in the 0-19 age bracket in Prairie Mountain Health since the final update before Christmas including 29 over the past seven days. When it comes to Brandon schools, there has not been any indication of any potential exposure since the January 12 notice from BSD regarding Grade six at Waverly Park on January 7 & 8. All four reported school exposure notices this month indicate that cases were not believed acquired at school. All BSD notices at at:  
https://www.bsd.ca/News/Pages/default.aspx

Cross-posting for relevancy to this ongoing discussion.  
 
With today's provincial update released, the PMH reported case count increased by 424 on the month of January. This compares to 530 in December and 422 in November.  
 
Brandon's reported case count increased by 110 on the month. This compares to 258 in December and 176 in November.  
 
Still a long way to go, still a virus that has been very present in the province and community and still every bit as dangerous of a virus...  but I imagine safe to say that the holidays didn't lead to the spike in cases that it had the potential to thanks in large part to measures that were in place. Just in reading comments, there were definitely cases of non-compliance... but thank you to everyone who adjusted as required in order to avoid having this virus do to this community what it's demonstrated it's capable of.