Saskatchewan is continuing with their program and they've had 4 environmental positives over the last while for Delta Coronavirus only at their high traffic sites.
One sample was actually a fecal sample from a sparrow that was strongly positive so they suspect that these are the avian Delta Coronavirus that we looked at last year.
They will be sending those off for confirmation that it is indeed the avian and not the porcine.
Manitoba continues to work to get all of their farms negative in the very near future.
I think this is a great success story for Manitoba to be able to accomplish this in such a short period of time.
They've got 1 declared negative already and they've got 2 more presumptive negatives.
They do get occasional PED positive samples on environmental testing from their sites that have regular U.S. contact and I think that is a reminder for everyone in western Canada that that's probably our weak link, is our portal with the U.S. through that traffic through Manitoba.
Dr. Julia Keenliside says we have to remain cognizant of the possibility of the virus entering Canada through Manitoba.
Source: Farmscape