292 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday By: The Brandon Sun
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The province announced 292 new cases of COVID-19 along with 15 deaths Wednesday, the first day vaccinations for the virus roll out in Winnipeg.
In the Prairie Mountain Health region 35 new cases were found and two new deaths a man in his 70s at Fairview Personal Care Home and a man in his 80s from the Swan Valley Health Centre.
While the vaccine is officially in Manitoba, chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin warned it’s not the time for people to let their guards down. I do think that it has been a day that has been long-awaited and so I do think we do have that glimmer of hope that we all needed, but we can’t let that change our behaviours over this holiday season, he said.
Manitoba Reports 292 New Cases Of COVID-19, 241 Recoveries And 15 Deaths
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2020 novel coronavirus bulletin – 287
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach
Posted on 12/16/2020 at 12:38 pm
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 13.6 per cent provincially and 13.7 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30am on December 16, 2020, 292 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, one case was removed due to a data correction making the net total 291 and brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 21,826.
Public health officials advise 15 additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
a male in his 40s from the Winnipeg health region;
a female in her 40s from the Interlake-Eastern health region, linked to outbreak at Kin Place;