18 more deaths, 155 new cases of COVID-19 for Manitoba Posted:
Last Modified: 2:31 PM CST Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020 | Updates
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Dr. Jazz Atwal, Deputy chief provincial public health officer, said officials need people to stay home during the holidays, as hospitalization rates remain high and health-care workers are pushed to the max. (Jesse Boily / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Manitoba confirmed 155 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday the second consecutive day where its case count dropped below 200.
Manitoba confirmed 155 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday the second consecutive day where its case count dropped below 200.
However, the province s death toll keeps rising, with 18 more fatalities reported.
Man in his 30s among 13 new deaths reported in Manitoba on Sunday
In Manitoba, the five-day test positivity rate a rolling average of the number of tests that come back positive is 12.2 per cent. That s the lowest it s been in more than a month.
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229 new cases, test positivity rate the lowest it s been in more than a month at 12.2% provincewide
Posted: Dec 20, 2020 12:31 PM CT | Last Updated: December 21, 2020
A look down the hallway of a restricted COVID-19 unit at Winnipeg s Health Sciences Centre. (Mikaela Mackenzie/Winnipeg Free Press/Canadian Press)
There are 229 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba on Sunday and 13 more people have died from the illness, including a man in his 30s, according to a provincial news release.
2020 novel coronavirus bulletin – 291
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 12/20/2020 at 12:37 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 12.2 per cent provincially and 11.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on December 12, 2020, 229 new cases of the virus have been identified, which brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 22,859.
Public health officials advise 13 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today, including:
a female in her 50s from the Northern health region;
a female in her 80s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to an outbreak at the Grandview Personal Care Home in Grandview;
a male in his 90s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region,
By Matthew Dekker
Dec 20, 2020 6:54 PM
Public health officials advise 13 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today, including:
• a female in her 50s from the Northern health region;
• a female in her 80s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, linked to an outbreak at the Grandview Personal Care Home in Grandview;
• a male in his 90s from the Southern Health-Santé Sud region,
• a male in his 30s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to an outbreak at St. Amant;
• a female in her 40s from the Winnipeg health region;
• a female in her 70s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to an outbreak at Holy Family Home;
WINNIPEG Thirteen more Manitobans have died from COVID-19, including a man in his 30s from the Winnipeg health region. Announced in the province s daily COVID-19 bulletin on Saturday, 11 of the deaths are from Winnipeg. The 30-year-old Winnipeg man who passed from the virus is linked to an outbreak at St. Amant. Two of the deaths, a man in his 70s and a woman in her 90s, are linked to an outbreak at the Charleswood Care Centre. A Winnipeg woman linked to an outbreak at Holy Family Home also died from the virus. One death, a woman in her 80s, is linked to an outbreak at the GA3 unit at Health Sciences Centre.