He said on Friday, there were 428 staff absences across the division with 111 of those unfilled.The Manitoba Teachers’ Society (MTS) put out a call Thursday for all schools to be moved to the red, or critical, level on the province’s Pandemic Response System.Premier Brian Pallister says the province is doing everything it can to keep kids in school.“For many people, they need the structure of a classroom and they need direct contact with an educator or a teacher,” said Pallister Thursday. “When we talk about a circuit-breaker, I can’t help but think that break might be the break in the relationship between a teacher and a student, and we don’t want that to happen.”The latest numbers on the province’s dashboard shows there have been 416.