“We thank all of our guests who have been looking out for one another with diligent mask use at games and events at Canada Life Centre this season,” said Kevin Donnelly, the senior vice president of venues and entertainment at True North.
On Thursday, the province of Manitoba reported 218 new COVID-19 cases, according to publicly available data.
Not all teams in Canada have publicly declared a verdict on how they will handle the country-wide spike in COVID-19 cases, fuelled in large part by the rise of the Omicron variant.
What that means for the immediate future of fans attending games at the Bell Centre is not yet known.
“At the present time, let’s say sports arenas, hockey arenas still at full capacity, that’s something that I think needs to be looked at,” Dr.
Research on the Omicron variant, which was first identified in November in Botswana and South Africa, is still developing.