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Province reports 18 new highly contagious-strain COVID cases
Dr. Brent Roussin, chief provincial public health officer.
More than 20 per cent of Manitoba’s highly contagious COVID-19 variant cases have no known origin.
More than 20 per cent of Manitoba’s highly contagious COVID-19 variant cases have no known origin.
The majority of cases involving local variants of concern have spread via close contacts, but nine of the total 41 cases haven’t been connected to any other case, the province announced Monday.
The increase in highly contagious COVID-19 variants has the province’s top doctor pledging more aggressive contact tracing and case investigations, but no changes to either have been announced.
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Last Modified: 1:10 PM CST Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021 | Updates
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Manitoba has detected 70 new COVID-19 cases, including 30 in the North, as public-health officials say the spread of the virus in one remote First Nation has stabilized.
Officials also reported one death Thursday, a Winnipeg man in his 70s. Since the pandemic started, 888 people have died from the disease.
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New infections were reported in all but the Prairie Mountain health region, including 31 in Winnipeg, 30 in Northern Health, seven in Interlake-Eastern and two in Southern Health-Sante Sud.
The province said the risk of COVID-19 transmission has stabilized in Pauingassi First Nation, located nearly 300 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, and strict public-health orders in the community are being lifted. All other orders in Manitoba remain in effec
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The Manitoba government has launched an online dashboard dedicated to COVID-19 cases in schools.
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The Manitoba government has launched an online dashboard dedicated to COVID-19 cases in schools.
It provides current information, including cases within the last 14 days and the total number since Sept. 1, 2020, the province said in a statement Thursday.
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The dashboard also includes cases where students or staff may not have been infectious while at school. A map allows the public to see individual school case counts for the last 14 days by location.