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The number of people in hospital Thursday due to COVID-19 jumped from 221 to 240.
Another outbreak has been declared at Donwood Manor Personal Care Home in Winnipeg, while an outbreak has been declared over at the CN Rail offices at 821 Lagimodiere Blvd.
The provincial test positivity rate is down slightly to 12 per cent. Winnipeg s rate was 14.4 per cent for the second day in a row.
The total number of cases of more contagious coronavirus variants rose by 388 to 5,210. Of Manitoba s 4,046 active cases, 1,974 are now variants.
So far, 1,002 people have died due to COVID-19, including 29 linked to variants.
The three deaths announced Thursday are all linked to the B117 variant originally detected in the U.K. Those deaths are two women, in their 60s and 70s, from the Prairie Mountain Health region, and a man in his 70s from Winnipeg.
WINNIPEG Manitoba has now marked 1,000 deaths linked to COVID-19 since March 2020. Three new deaths were reported on Wednesday, and include a woman in her 50s from the Prairie Mountain Health Region, a man in his 60s from Winnipeg, and a man in his 70s in the Interlake-Eastern Health Region. The woman in her 50s and man in his 60s were both linked to the B.1.1.7 variant while the man in his 70s was connected to an unspecified variant. So far, 27 deaths have been connected to a variant of concern. The case count in the province also stayed high with 364 new cases and the test positivity rate is 12.1 throughout Manitoba.